{"id":2796,"date":"2020-02-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=2796"},"modified":"2020-06-12T17:05:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T17:05:46","slug":"duan-zhengcheng-industrial-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=2796","title":{"rendered":"Duan Zhengcheng, industrial engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Duan Zhengcheng \u2011 a Chinese industrial engineer and inventor – died from coronavirus on 15 February 2020.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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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.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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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.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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In 1996, he invented the OUR-QGD stereotactic gamma-ray system, which won him a State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class) in 2005.<\/p>\r\n<\/p>

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