{{short description|Chinese chemical engineer, physicist, metallurgist, and crystallographer}} {{family name hatnote|Guo (Kuo)|lang=Chinese}} {{Infobox academic |native_name={{nobold|{{native name|zh|郭可信|italics=no|nolink=yes|paren=omit}}}} |birth_date={{Birth date|1923|08|23}} |image=File:Guo Kexin pic.jpeg |death_date={{Death date and age|2006|12|13|1923|08|23}} |death_place= |alma_mater=Zhejiang University |discipline= |sub_discipline=Electron microscopy}}
'''Guo Kexin''' ({{zh|c=郭可信}}; 1923–2006), also known as '''Ke-Xin Guo''' or '''K. H. Kuo''' ('''Ke-Hsin Kuo'''), was a Chinese chemical engineer, physicist, metallurgist and crystallographer. He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and is a pioneer of electron microscopy in China.
==Life== Guo was born on August 23, 1923. In 1941, he graduated from Chongqing Nankai Middle School. He graduated from Zhejiang University in 1946 with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in chemical engineering. In 1947, Guo went to study in Sweden.{{cn|date=October 2020}}
Guo was the Director and a senior researcher at the Beijing Electron Microscope Open Laboratory (a.k.a. Beijing Laboratory of Electron Microscopy) and the Center for Condensed Matter Physics and the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.chinavitae.com/biography/Guo_Kexin/bio|title=Biography of Guo Kexin|website=China Vitae|access-date=2018-03-21}}</ref> Guo was the main founder of the Chinese Society for Electron Microscopy (a.k.a. Chinese Electron Microscopy Society, CEMS; 中国电子显微镜会), and served as its Director/President from 1982 to 1996.
==Recognition== In 1980, Guo was elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was also a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), and received an Honorary Doctorate from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://english.cas.cn/resources/archive/china_archive/cn2006/200909/t20090923_42015.shtml|title=Physicist GUO Kexin, 83, passes away|website=Chinese Academy of Sciences|access-date=2018-03-21}}</ref><ref name=":0" />
The K. H. Kuo Education Fund is named after him.
==References== <references/>
==Archive== *''Electron microscopy of aperiodic materials Invited and contributed papers from a symposium at the ICEM14, Cancun, Mexico, 3 September 1998, in honour of Professor K.H. Kuo'' - by Lian-Mao Peng and J. L. Aragón
==External links== * [http://www.chinavitae.com/biography/Guo_Kexin/bio Guo Kexin's biography at China Vitae] * [http://www.chinavitae.com/biography/Guo_Kexin Guo Kexin's short CV at China Vitae] * {{Cite web|url=http://english.cas.cn/resources/archive/china_archive/cn2006/200909/t20090923_42015.shtml|title=Physicist GUO Kexin, 83, passes away|website=Chinese Academy of Sciences|access-date=2018-03-21}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080926192415/http://khkuofoundations.org/ Homepage of the K.H.Kuo Education Fund] {{in lang|zh|en}} * [http://saturn.med.nyu.edu/research/sb/wanglab/Kuo-index.html K. H. Kuo Home Page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081029000424/http://saturn.med.nyu.edu/research/sb/wanglab/Kuo-index.html |date=2008-10-29 }}
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