What is Wang Buxuan?
{{Infobox scientist | name = Wang Buxuan | native_name = 王补宣 | native_name_lang =zh-Hans | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1922|2|5}} | birth_place = [[Wuxi]], [[Jiangsu]], China | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2019|8|31|1922|2|5}} | death_place = [[Beijing]], China | fields = [[Thermodynamics]], [[solar power]], [[heat transfer]] | workplaces = [[Tsinghua University]] | alma_mater = [[National Southwestern Associated University]]<br />[[Purdue University]] | spouse = | children = | awards = [[Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize]] (1998) | academic_advisors = | notable_students = }} '''Wang Buxuan''' (5 February 1922 – 31 August 2019), also known as '''Bu-Xuan Wang''' and '''Pu-Hsuan Wang''',<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Peng|first1=XF|last2=Guo|first2=ZY|last3=Hartnett|first3=JP|last4=Minkowycz|first4=WJ|date=March 2002|title=Professor Bu-Xuan Wang, Chinese academician, on his 80th birthday|journal=International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer|volume=45|issue=7|pages=1377–1378|doi=10.1016/s0017-9310(01)00259-9|issn=0017-9310}}</ref> was a Chinese thermal physicist and educator. He was known for engineering [[thermodynamics]] in China. He created the engineering thermodynamics program at [[Tsinghua University]] in 1957. He was elected an academician of the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]] in 1980. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Wang, Buxuan}} [[Category:1922 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Chinese physicists]] {{bio-stub}}