The death of leading Chinese radar scientist Yang Qiang, who worked on systems to detect stealth aircraft such as the US’ F-22, is a major loss for military research, his university has said.
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Yang, a professor in the school of electronics and information engineering at the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), died of “illness” in Shanghai on February 17, the institute said on Tuesday.
He was 55, HIT said, without giving details of his death.
The institute described Yang as “the backbone of teaching and research” at the school and said his death was “a major loss for both the university and the national defence research front”.
HIT is a top-ranked university in China and one of a group specialising in military engineering, aerospace, naval engineering and information warfare.
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It is overseen by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and attracts the most research funding of these kinds of institutions.