Zhou Yaohe

Zhou Yaohe (Chinese: 周尧和; pinyin: Zhōu Yáohé; Wade–Giles: Chou Yao-ho May 1927 – 30 July 2018) was a Chinese materials scientist.

He went to the Soviet Union in 1953, and returned to China with a Candidate of Sciences degree from the Moscow Institute of Steel, in 1957.

He specialized in solidification theory and technology for metal casting, and developed a new method of metal casting, which is used to produce aluminium alloy for aerospace engineering.

He received the highest award of Chinese aviation industry in 1991.

[3] He died on 30 July 2018 at Huadong Hospital in Shanghai, aged 91.