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{{Short description|Chinese optical physicist}}
{{family name hatnote|[[Hou (surname)|Hou]]|lang=Chinese}}
'''Hou Xun''' ({{IPAc-cmn|h|ou|4|-|x|ün|2}}; {{zh|c=侯洵}}; born 6 December 1936) is a Chinese [[optical physicist]], specializing in [[optoelectronics]]. He is a research professor and former director (1986–1995) of the [[Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics]]. He won the [[State Science and Technology Progress Award]] three times and was elected an academician of the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]] in 1991.
== Early life and education ==
Hou was born 6 December 1936 in [[Lingbao City|Lingbao]], [[Henan]], China, with his [[Ancestral home (Chinese)|ancestral home]] in [[Xianyang]], [[Shaanxi]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sourcedb.opt.cas.cn/zw/zjrc/ys/200907/t20090722_2134002.html|title=Hou Xun|website=Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics|access-date=2019-02-05}}</ref>
He graduated from the Department of Physics of [[Northwest University (China)|Northwest University]] in [[Xi'an]] in 1959, and conducted research under [[Wang Chengshu]] at the Institute of Nuclear Energy of the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]] (now [[China Institute of Atomic Energy]]) from 1960 to 1961. In March 1962, he began working at the Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM).<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.cnnc.com.cn/cnnc/300582/fczh/425207/index.html|title="两弹一艇"人物谱：侯洵|date=2015-07-08|website=China National Nuclear Corporation|access-date=2019-02-05}}</ref> From 1979 to 1981 he was a visiting scholar at the Physics Department of [[Imperial College London]] and conducted research in optics.<ref name=":0" />
== Career ==
In 1982, he became Deputy Director of XIOPM, and was promoted to Director in June 1986, serving until March 1995.<ref name=":0" /> He was a professor at Northwest University and an adjunct professor at [[Xi'an Jiaotong University]], the [[University of Science and Technology of China]] (USTC), and [[South China Normal University]].<ref name=":0" />
Hou's main research area is transient optics. He led or participated in the development of eight types of [[high-speed camera]]s,<ref name=":1" /> which have been used in nuclear tests.<ref name=":0" /> He served as chief scientist of the "[[Femtosecond]] Laser Technology and Ultrafast Process of the Climbing Project A", a large-scale research project on [[ultrafast phenomena]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.hlhl.org.cn/english/showsub.asp?id=39|title=Hou Xun|website=Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation|access-date=2019-02-05}}</ref> He also invented the Pd-Ag-O-Cs ([[Palladium]]-[[Silver]]-[[Oxygen]]-[[Caesium]]) [[photocathode]]<ref name=":1" /> and published more than 200 research papers.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://physics.nwu.edu.cn/index.php?s=/Public/teacher/id/28|title=Hou Xun|website=Northwest University|access-date=2019-02-05}}</ref>
Hou won the [[State Science and Technology Progress Award]] three times, and was awarded the [[Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize]] for Technological Sciences. He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991.<ref name=":1" />
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==Further reading==
*{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=76W6CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA313 |chapter=My Scientific Research Career and China's Development of Optical Transient Technologies |title=History of Modern Optics and Optoelectronics Development in China |last=Hou |first= Xun |editor-last=Gan |editor-first=Fuxi |publisher=World Scientific|year=2014|isbn=978-981-4518-76-5|pages=313–369}}
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