Duan Zhengcheng


Duan Zhengcheng was a Chinese industrial engineer and inventor. He specialized in machinery manufacturing and automation, was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and served as a professor and doctoral supervisor at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
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Biography

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 in Wuhan, Hubei, aged 85.

Contribution

In 1996, he invented the OUR-QGD stereotactic gamma-ray system, which won him a State Science and Technology Progress Award in 2005.

Honours and awards