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(Original title: Zhou Guangzhao, winner of the "Two Bombs and One Satellite Medal of Merit", passed away at the age of 95)

A reporter from The Paper learned from relevant departments that Academician Zhou Guangzhao, former vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, former president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and winner of the "Two Bombs and One Satellite Medal of Merit", died in Beijing on August 17, 2024 at the age of 95 due to illness.

Zhou Guangzhao, winner of the "Two Bombs and One Satellite Medal of Merit", dies in Beijing

Public information shows that Zhou Guangzhao, male, Han nationality, member of the Communist Party of China, was born in May 1929 in Changsha, Hunan Province. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a theoretical physicist. In 1958, he first proposed the helical amplitude of particles in the world and established the corresponding mathematical method. In 1960, he derived the partial conservation theorem of pseudovector flow (PCAC), becoming one of the internationally recognized founders of PCAC.

After returning to China in 1961, Zhou Guangzhao engaged in theoretical research on nuclear weapons, participated in and led research on explosion physics, radiation fluid mechanics, high temperature and high pressure physics, computational mechanics, etc., and made significant contributions to the theoretical design of China's first atomic bomb and hydrogen bomb. In 1996, the International Astronomical Union Committee on Minor Astronomical Nomenclature approved the naming of the asteroid with the international number 3462 as "Zhou Guangzhao Star". In 1999, he was awarded the "Two Bombs and One Satellite Medal of Merit".