Noteworthy – Page 39

28Feb

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Iran, Noteworthy, Profiles

Hadi Khosroshahi, cleric & diplomat

Seyyed Hadi Khosroshahi –an Iranian cleric and diplomat who served as the first Iranian Ambassador to the Vatican – died from Covid-19 on 27 February 2020. When he was 15 years old, Khosroshahi joined the leader of militant Fada'iyan-e Islam (Devotees of Islam), Sayyid Mojtaba Mir-Lohi, nicknamed Navvab Safavi. He was close to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood. Based on his interviews, in at least two cases, he sought Khomeini's approval for the assassination of the Islamic Republic's first President, Abolhassan Bani Sadr and Iran's last Queen Farah Pahlavi, both living in exile in Paris. Khomeini rejected the idea, Khosroshahi maintained. Khosroshahi was a prominent figure in the Qom Seminary and was a representative of Ayatollah Khomeini in the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance afte...

21Feb

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China, Noteworthy, Profiles

Ke Huibing, management scientist

Ke Huibing ‑ a Chinese management scientist, professor and doctoral advisor at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology – succumbed to Covid-19 on 19 February 2020. Ke was educated at Law School of Hubei University, majoring in law, where he graduated in June 2002 and obtained a bachelor's degree. In June 2005, he graduated from the School of Sociology of Huazhong University of Science and Technology with a doctor's degree in management. In June 2008, he obtained a doctor's degree in management in Wuhan University Social Security Research Center. Since July 2008, he was a teacher of management science at the School of Social Sciences of Huazhong University of Science and Technology. His professional direction was social security theory and poli...

16Feb

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China, Noteworthy, Profiles

Duan Zhengcheng, industrial engineer

Duan Zhengcheng ‑ a Chinese industrial engineer and inventor – died from coronavirus on 15 February 2020. He specialized in machinery manufacturing and automation, was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) and served as a professor and doctoral supervisor at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Duan was born in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, on 15 June 1934. After graduating from high school in 1953, he studied, then taught, at what is now Huazhong University of Science and Technology. On 15 February 2020, he died of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Wuhan, Hubei, aged 85. In 1996, he invented the OUR-QGD stereotactic gamma-ray system, which won him a State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class) i...

15Feb

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China, Noteworthy, Profiles

Liu Shouxiang, painter

Liu Shouxiang –a Chinese watercolor painter and professor at the Hubei Institute of Fine Arts – died from Covid-19 on 13 February 2020. His work won many awards and was collected by many art museums. He was also a member of the China Democratic League. Liu was born in Wuhan. In 1981, he graduated from the Hubei Institute of Fine Arts in the Department of Fine Arts, majored in teaching. He stayed in school and served as the director of the Department of Fine Arts Education. In 1987, he founded the Department of Watercolor Painting in the Hubei Institute of Technology Teachers' Department. In 2009, he established a watercolor painting department and served as the head of the department. He was the first person to set up a watercolor painting de...

8Feb

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China, Medics, Noteworthy, Profiles

Hong Ling, geneticist

Hong Ling ‑ a Chinese geneticist, professor and doctoral advisor at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology – died on 7 February 2020 due to Covid-19 infection at Wuhan Union Hospital. Hong was educated at Wuhan University, majoring in biology, where he graduated in July 1987 and obtained a bachelor's degree. In December 1994, he graduated from the University of Arizona with a doctor's degree in biochemistry. After graduation, he started his career as a biochemist at Department of Molecular & Cell Biology (MCB), of University of California, Berkeley. Since March 2007, he served as professor of molecular biology at the School of Life Science and Technology of Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He was studying major and rare human ...

7Feb

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China, Noteworthy, Profiles

Qiu Jun, bodybuilder

Qiu Jun ‑a Chinese bodybuilder and a bodybuilding champion who claimed numerous prizes in the senior category – died on 6 February 2020 from coronavirus He won many national competitions and was ranked 2nd in the international bodybuilding tournament called "Olympic World Night" 2019, which took place in China. In 1964, after graduating from technical secondary school, Qiu, age 16 years old, entered Wuchang Vehicle Factory where he was responsible for railway maintenance. In 1990, he participated in the first bodybuilding competition in Hubei Province on behalf of the factory and got the fifth place in the province. Since then, he become obsessed with bodybuilding. When SARS outbreak in 2003 occurred, Qiu retired from the factory. His wife pa...