Hao Bailin

Hao Bailin (; 26 June 1934 – 7 March 2018) was a Chinese theoretical physicist, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Fudan University professor.

Biography Hao was born in Beijing, 1934. He graduated from then Beijing Russian Institute in 1954, then went to Kharkiv and studied mining at Kharkov Engineering-Economic Institute. He transferred to the Department of Mathematics and Physics, Kharkiv University in 1956 and completed his bachelor's degree in the next three years.

He entered the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences as a trainee researcher afterwards. He went to Moscow State University and Soviet Academy of Sciences for the further studying on physics since 1959.

Hao had meant to become a postgraduate under Lev Landau, but Landau was injured in a road accident in 1962, he returned to China without a postgraduate diploma.

He continued his job in CAS until the Cultural Revolution began. During the decade, he participated the Task 1019 for the military. Hao was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980. Hao took interdisciplinary research programmes later, he also sequenced DNA since 1997.