Li Guohao
His method of calculation, with a high degree of precision although of extreme complexity, can cut down the cost of engineering and promote bridge stability.Li also served as Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) of Shanghai, making him a politician of provincial-ministerial rank.At the age of 16, Li, the son of a poor farming family, completed the preparatory course for Tongji University in Shanghai and started studying civil engineering there in 1931, graduating with distinction in 1936.Furnished with a scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Li started his research work under Kurt Klöppel at TU Darmstadt in the autumn of 1938.Like many intellectuals, Li was ostracised as a reactionary scientific force during China’s Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), but was rehabilitated in 1977 and became rector of his Alma Mater.