摘要
In 1950, I graduated from Tsinghua University,majoring in machine building. Three years later, Ientered the Iron & Steel College in Moscow to start studying metallurgy as a postgraduate. After obtaining my associate professorship, I came back home. I devoted the succeeding 40 years to the theory and technology of solidification, because I had realized the importance of the physical process of solidification in materials science and engineering technologies as a means of upgrading the properties of traditional materials and developing new materials. My contributions in this field might be listed as follows: