Cheng Kaijia, born in 1918 in Jiangsu province, is a famous physicist and founder of China's nuclear science and technology.

Cheng Kaijia, born in 1918 in Jiangsu province, is a famous physicist and founder of China's nuclear science and technology.

Cheng graduated with a bachelor's in physics from Zhejiang University in 1941. In 1946, he studied at the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom and obtained a doctorate in 1948. He then became a researcher at the Institute of the Royal Chemistry Industry.

After returning to China in 1950, Cheng worked for Zhejiang University, Nanjing University, Ninth Academy of Second Machinery Ministry and the Institute at China Nuclear Test Base, among others. He was elected a member of the Chinese Academy of Science in 1980.

Since the 1990s, Cheng still studies material theory and high-power microwave technology.