Lu Zhaojun: male, born in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province on November 17, 1917, ancestral hometown at Fuzhou City, Fujian Province.

Graduated from Department of Civil Engineering of Tsinghua University in 1941, acquired Master of Science degree from Harvard University, US in 1948, served as assistant researcher at the soil mechanics research office of Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1948 through 1950, resigned and went back to China at the outbreak of the Korean War.

Back in China, he worked as researcher at CARS and started the Civil Engineering Office. He committed extensive efforts to the study of soil mechanics and foundation engineering technology, and made eminent contributions to the know-how for road building at regions of special soil in China.

He cracked the technology for engineering and road building at salinized soil in northwestern China and soft clay soil in valley areas of southeastern China in the 1950s and 1960s, and developed respective design codes/principles.

In the field of earth-retaining structures, he developed the design theories for the structures of new types of anchor plates.

He studied the engineering issues with regions of expansive soil in mid-south and southwestern China after the 1970s, and offered measures.

He published dozens of high-level papers on mainstream academic publications in both China and abroad, and co-authored the foundation sections of Guide to Civil Engineering, and Foundation Treatment Manual in China.

He served as the deputy executive director general and director general of the Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering Society of China for 11 years from 1979 to 1990, presided over the 3rd, 4th and 5th National Academic Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, published the proceedings of papers for the conferences, and facilitated the Chinese academic papers and delegations’ presence at the 10th and 11th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering. In this process, he has contributed to the development and improvement of the Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering disciplines in China.

Appointed member of CAS in 1991;

Became one of the first senior member of CAS in 1998;

Published new concepts on the theory of shear strength of unsaturated soil in 1997, and was named one of the world celebrities in sciences of the millennium by the American Association of Science Biographies (AASB) in the same year;

And appointed chief expert of CARS in 2002.