Huang Kezhi

Huang Kezhi (; 21 July 1927 – 6 December 2022) was a Chinese physicist who was a professor at Tsinghua University, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Together with and Du Qinghua, they are known as "the Three giants of Solid mechanics at Tsinghua University". His ancestral home is in Fuzhou, Fujian.

Personal life In 1955, Huang married Chen Peiying , a classmate of Tsinghua University from Zhejiang. The couple had three children: Qiong Huang (; doctorate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Yonggang Huang, and Yongqiang Huang (; doctorate from Stanford University).

Honours and awards 1991 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) 2001 Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation 2003 Foreign Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) 2004 State Natural Science Award (Second Class) for the study on the Theory of Tensor Function Representation and the Invariance of Material Constitutive Equation 2005 State Natural Science Award (Second Class) for mechanical and electrical coupling failure and constitutive relation of ferroelectric ceramics 2010 State Natural Science Award (Second Class) for deformation and fracture of electromagnetic solids