On June 11, 2006, Yang Jiachi, an expert in aerospace technology and automatic control, passed away.
Expert in aerospace technology and automatic control, expert in instrumentation and automation, founder of automatic detection. China is one of the founders of the automation discipline, a member of the Chinese Automation Society and the Chinese Instrument and Control Society, an academician of the International Academy of Astronautics, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Joined the Communist Party of China in December 1980.
Born on July 16, 1919 in Wujiang County, Jiangsu Province. Graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering of Jiaotong University in 1941. In 1930, I moved to Shanghai with my parents. In 1947, he went to the United States to study and studied in the Department of Applied Physics of Harvard University, where he received his master's and doctorate degrees. From 1950 to 1955, he worked as a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania and as a senior engineer at the Rockefeller Institute.
After returning to China in 1956, he successively served as researcher, director and deputy director of the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and deputy director and director of the Beijing Institute of Control Engineering. After 1968, he served as deputy director of the 502 Institute of the National Defense Science and Technology Commission, deputy director and director of the 502 Institute of the Seventh Ministry of Machinery, and chief engineer of the Ministry of Aerospace. china/12365 In the 1960s, he participated in the formulation of the "Ten-Year Development Plan for China's Industrial Automation Instruments", the "Ten-Year Development Plan for China's Automation Science and Technology" and the "Ten-Year Development Plan for China's Artificial Satellites". In 1984, he was awarded the Model Worker of the Ministry of Aerospace.
In March 1986, He, Wang and Wang put forward suggestions of great significance to the development of high technology in our country. Under Deng Xiaoping's personal instructions and active support, the State Council formulated the "863 Plan" for China's high-tech development on the basis of listening to expert opinions, creating a new situation in China's high-tech development. In the 1980s, he was one of the advocates of the "China High-Tech Research and Development Outline" and made great contributions to the development of high-tech in our country.
In 2000, academicians Wang Daheng, Yang Jiaqi and other academicians jointly proposed the proposal to develop China's automotive electronic information industry and seize the commanding heights of the future world's automotive computing platform. Since the establishment of the Chinese Society of Automation in 1961, Yang Jiachi has served as executive director of the first and second councils, vice chairman of the third and fourth councils, and chairman of the fifth and sixth councils.
Yang Jiachi has long been committed to developing China's science, technology and aerospace industry. He participated in the development planning of China's aerospace technology and was one of the early experts in aerospace technology research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He led and participated in the development of China's first artificial earth satellite attitude measurement system. He is the designer of the aerospace technology subsystem. He proposed a series of advanced and feasible design ideas in the program demonstration and technical design of my country's returnable satellite attitude control system. The returnable satellite attitude system and data analysis indicators developed under his leadership reached the internationally advanced level at that time. Guide the development of major scientific research projects such as detection technology and equipment required for atomic bomb testing.
Yang Jiachi participated in the founding of the Chinese Instrument and Control Society, which was established in March 1979. Elected as Vice Chairman of the Association's first to fourth Board of Directors. In order to establish channels for international scientific and technological exchanges, he led a delegation to the United States in 1980 and established a cooperative relationship with the American Instrument and Control Association. Later, together with the Japan Measurement and Control Research Institute and the British Measurement and Control Research Institute, we held multinational academic conferences and exhibitions in China in 1983, 1985, 1987, 1991, and 1992. During these meetings, Yang Jiachi served as the head of the academic committee and contributed to the development of China's instrument science and technology.
In 1984, Yang Jiachi was awarded the title of Model Worker by the Ministry of Aerospace. Won the National Science and Technology Progress Special Award in 1985. Since 1990, he has enjoyed special government subsidies. In 1991, he was approved by the Ministry of Aeronautics and Astronautics as a veteran expert with outstanding contributions
In July 1919, Yang Jiachi was born in Zhenze Town, Wujiang County, Jiangsu Province. The Yang family is a famous local silk house. Yang Jiaqi's grandfather, Yang Xiaofan, was an open-minded person. His descendants do not need to read the Four Books and Five Classics, nor do they need to attend private schools. Instead, they need to learn English and go to school.
Unlike his old-school parents, Yang Jiaqi's grandfather left his descendants knowledge and culture rather than land and wealth. The silk reeling industry at that time was relatively primitive and relied entirely on manual work. Yang Jiachi grew up in such a production and management environment. Around 1930, China's silk industry gradually declined. Yang Jiachi spent his elementary school years at the Silk Industry Public School founded by his grandfather.
In 1937, Yang Jiachi was admitted to Jiaotong University. This year, Japanese militarists launched a war of aggression against China, and the once prosperous Shanghai became an "isolated island." Yang Jiachi's four years of college life were actually spent in foreign concessions, which further strengthened his ambition to save the country through science and technology.
After graduating from Yang Jiachi University in 1941, he served as a teaching assistant at Southwest Associated University. Later, he was recommended to the Central Electrical Equipment Factory to develop carrier telephones. There, he spent more than two years making China's first single-channel carrier telephone prototype. Because of his outstanding performance, the Central Electrical Equipment Factory recommended him to take the internship exam in the United States. In 1947, he was admitted to Harvard School of Arts and Sciences.
In 1949, Yang Jiachi received a doctorate from Harvard University. His doctoral thesis was on Fourier transforms and their applications. At this time, the People's Republic of China was proclaimed. Yang Jiachi, who was eager to return to the country, applied to return, but was unreasonably blocked by the United States. In desperation, Yang Jiachi applied for a job in the Department of Biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania. While in the United States, Yang Jiachi successfully developed an automatic recording spectrometer, which was named "Young's Instrument" by experts, thus ending the manual history of spectrometers. and obtained a U.S. patent.
From 1950 to 1956, he served as an assistant researcher at the University of Pennsylvania and a senior engineer at the Rockefeller Institute. During these four years, he participated in the development of high-speed analog electronic computers, presided over the development of fast recording absorption spectrometers and high-resistance auto-zeroing DC amplifiers. He combined electronic technology, automatic control technology and medical research to create medical electronics. Study subjects. In 1955, the American Process Instrument Company signed a production contract with Yang Jiachi, paying Yang Jiachi US$100 for each instrument produced.