According to Comrade Pan Junhua, an outstanding member of the Communist Party of China, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, a well-known expert in applied optics, a researcher and doctoral supervisor of the School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering of Soochow University, Comrade Pan Junhua passed away at 15:48 on December 18, 2023 in Suzhou at the age of 94.
Pan Junhua (data map **Official website of Soochow University).
Pan Junhua was born in Shanghai in October 1930. In 1960 he graduated from the Leningrad Pulkovo Observatory of the USSR Academy of Sciences with a PhD. In 1999, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. According to the report of "Guangming**", in 1956, Pan Junhua accepted the arrangement of the unit to study in the Soviet Union under the tutelage of the famous Soviet astronomical and optical expert Maksutov. Since Pan Junhua's undergraduate is mechanical, and optics is only at an amateur level, he Xi studied harder. In the first year, graduate students are required to complete four courses in philosophy, Russian and two specialized courses, of which philosophy and Russian are taught two or three times a week in the department of the USSR Academy of Sciences in the city. After hard work, he got perfect marks in all four courses. "I always think that I can't embarrass the country, and I can apply what I have learned when I return to China. Pan Junhua said. In August 1960, Pan Junhua returned to Changchun Institute of Optics and Mechanics and immediately participated in the development of the 60 cm intermediate test telescope, accumulating valuable experience for the design of Project 216. In 1975, the Chinese Academy of Sciences launched 2The development of a large telescope with a diameter of 16 meters was carried out, and a leading group of the 216 project was established, with Pan Junhua as the leader of the overall technical group. "I am not afraid of difficulties, but I am afraid of not having a realistic and pragmatic attitude. ”Pan Junhua said. With his rigorous, meticulous and down-to-earth scientific research spirit, hundreds of large and small problems of the project have been properly solved. 2.The 16-meter optical astronomical telescope was developed by China and had the largest aperture in the Far East at that time, and was known as "a monument" in the Chinese astronomical community, and the project won the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award in 1998. "In the field of applied optics, optical design, inspection and processing are inseparable, and the communication between the three is good, and many technical problems are easy to solve. Regardless of which area of research you focus on, it is important to have an understanding of these three aspects. Pan Junhua often said this to the students. "Pushing formulas is not the whole of scientific research, you have to try it. ”Pan Junhua said. In 2019, an asteroid with an international number of 216331 was approved by the International Minor Planet Center and the International Committee on Asteroid Nomenclature and officially named "Pan Junhua Star" in recognition of Pan Junhua's great contributions to the field of applied optics research for a long time. Source**: Guangming**》Official website of Soochow University**: Political affairs.