1. Mao Yisheng (1896-1989), born in Zhengjiang, Jiangsu, world-famous civil engineer, bridge engineer and engineering educator, graduated from the Tangshan Industrial Technical School in 1916 and served as the president of our University four times. He was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1955 and foreign academician of the American National Academy of Engineering in 1982.

2. Zhu Kezhen (1890-1974), born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, meteorologist, geographer, and educator, was admitted to the Tangshan College of Railway and Mining in 1909 and elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1955. He has made significant contributions to the establishment and development of modern Chinese meteorology and geography.

3. Li Yan (1892-1963), born in Fuzhou, Fujian, historian, and expert on the history of ancient Chinese mathematics, was admitted to the Tangshan College of Railway and Mining in 1912 and elected academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1955. He pioneered the history study of ancient Chinese mathematics.

4. Fang Jun (1904-1998), born in Wujin, Jiangsu, geophysicist, was admitted to the Tangshan University of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications in 1926 and elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980. He was the founder of Chinese physical geodesy and geomorphology.

5. Lin Tonghua (1911-2007), born in Fuzhou, Fujian, world-famous aerospace and structural engineer, graduated from the Jiaotong University's Tangshan Engineering College in 1933 and was elected as member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American National Academy of Engineering in 1990. He designed and developed China’s first long-distance transport aircraft “C-0101”.

6. Wang Juqian (1906-1975), born in Shanghai, famous railway bridge engineer, graduated from the Tangshan University of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications in 1926 and was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1955. He has made important contributions to the development of China’s railway construction and bridge science and technology.

7. Lin Tongyan (1912-2003), born in Fuzhou, Fujian, graduated from the Jiaotong University's Tangshan Engineering College in 1931, was elected as foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1996. He was nominated as one of “the top 125 contributors to the construction industry during the 125-period from 1874 to 1999” by Engineering News- Record.

8. Zhou Huijiu (1909-1999), born in Shenyang, Liaoning, materials scientist, and educator, was admitted in the Tangshan University of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications in 1927 and elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980. He has made great contributions to the establishment of the discipline of strength of materials in China.

9. Gu Xiasheng (1918-2012), born in Wuxi, Jiangsu, received a master's degree in sanitary engineering from Texas A & M University in 1948, taught at the Tangshan Engineering School of Northern Jiaotong University from 1949 to 1952, and was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1995. He proposed, for the first time in the world, the structural model of anaerobic granule sludge in UASB reactor and “crystal nucleus growth” theory of granular sludge formation mechanism.

10. Lin Bingnan (1920-2014), born in Putian, Fujian, hydaulician, graduated from the National Jiaotong University Guizhou Campus in 1942, and was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991. He has made great contributions to the basic researches of China’s hydro science and the establishment of hydraulics laboratory.

11. Zhang Peilin (1917-2005), born in Pingding, Shanxi, physical metallurgist, was admitted to the Jiaotong University's Tangshan Engineering College in 1936 and elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980. He has made outstanding contributions to the development of atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs and the study of nuclear materials in China.

12. Long Yuqiu (1926- ), born in Anhua, Hunan, renowned civil engineer and structural engineer, was admitted to the National Jiaotong University Guizhou Campus in 1944 and elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1995. He developed for the first time three types of advanced finite element (generalized conforming element, sub-region mixed element and spline element), and two types of advanced variational principle (Hamiltonian variational principle and partitioned variational principle).

13. Yan Kai (1912-2006), born in Minhou, Fujian, renowned expert on water conservancy and coastal engineering, graduated from the Jiaotong University's Tangshan Engineering College in 1933 and was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1955 and the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1995. He pioneered the muddy coast research in China.

14. Zhang Wei (1913-2001), born in Beijing, expert on mechanics, structural mechanics and engineering education, graduated from the Jiaotong University's Tangshan Engineering College in 1933 and was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1955, foreign academician of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 1980 and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1994. He has made great contributions to the training of Chinese mechanics professionals.

15. Liu Huixian (1912-1992), born in Pingxiang, Jiangxi, expert on earthquake engineering and structural mechanics, graduated from the Jiaotong University's Tangshan Engineering College in 1933 and was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980. He has made outstanding contributions to the research on earthquake resistance and disaster prevention in China.

16. Xiao Jimei (1920-2014), born in Fenghuang, Hunan, materials scientist, metallurgist and metallurgical educator, graduated from the National Jiaotong University Guizhou Campus in 1943 and was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980. He has made outstanding contributions to the development of China's metallurgical science and technology and metallurgy education.

17. Xu Caidong (1919-2016), born in Fengxin, Jiangxi, graduated from the National Jiaotong University Guizhou Campus in 1943 and was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980. He served as vice-governor of Guizhou Province, executive vice chairman of the Central Committee of JiuSan Society, and member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. He directed and participated in the blast furnace in mercury smelting test, the success of which greatly increased the output and recovery rate of mercury smelting. He presided over test of the potassium permanganate by the electrolytical method, succeeded in China’s first trial production, and then set up a factory for mass production. He also directed the test of the calcium-magnesium phosphate in the shaft furnace and successfully put it into production.

18. Qiu Zhuxian (1921-2006), born in Haimen, Jiangsu, graduated from the National Jiaotong University Guizhou Campus in 1943 and was elected as foreign academician of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences in 1987 and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1989. He devoted his life to the basic and applied researches of electrochemistry of fused salts, and was hailed as "the father of aluminum in China".

19. Zhuang Yuzhi (1924-1996), born in Chaoan, Guangdong, graduated from the National Jiaotong University Guizhou Campus in 1943 and was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980. He was one of the pioneers of aerospace material research of refractory metal in China.

20. Tan Jingyi (1921-2016), born in Hengyang, Hunan, expert on water conservancy and hydropower engineering, graduated from the National Jiaotong University Guizhou Campus in 1946 and was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1998. He developed high-pressure grouting technology in China and won the 7th China Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Award.

21. She Junnan (1916-1998), born in Chaoyang, Guangdong, architect, graduated from the Jiaotong University's Tangshan Engineering College in 1941, was nominated as “Chinese Master of Engineering Design” in 1989 and elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1997. He is an outstanding representative of Chinese Modern Lingnan Architecture School.

22. Chen Nengkuan (1923-2016), born in Cili, Hunan, graduated from the National Jiaotong University Guizhou Campus in 1946 and was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980. He won the "Two Bombs, One Satellite” Meritorious Medal in 1999 and is the pioneer of Chinese detonation physics of nuclear weapons. He has made significant contributions to the development of Chinese nuclear weapons and the cutting-edge science and technology for national defense.

23. Chen Qingru (1926- ), born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, graduated from the Tangshan Railway College in 1952 and was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1995. He is one of the founders and pioneers of the Chinese mineral processing science and established China's first coal preparation plant with air dense-midium fluidized bed in dry way. He won the “Lifetime Achievement Award” at the 16th International Coal Preparation Conference.

24. Wang Sanyi (1929-2003), born in Tonglu, Zhejiang, expert on the hydraulic structure design, was admitted to the National Tangshan Engineering College in 1948 and elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2001. He has made important contributions to the high dam design, seepage prevention of karst stratum, complex foundation treatment, flood discharge, energy dissipation and overall layout in hydropower stations.

25. Shen Zhiyun (1929- ), born in Changsha, Hunan, graduated from the Tangshan Railway College in 1952 and was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991 and the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1994. He created a wheel-rail nonlinear creep force model, namely "Shen—Hedrick—Elkin’s Theory".

26. Zou Shichang (1931- ), born in Taicang, Jiangsu, graduated from the Tangshan Railway College in 1952 and was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991. He proposed a new method of annealing and alloying with carbon dioxide laser irradiation from the back.

27. Xue Yuqun (1913- ), born in Wuxi, Jiangsu, graduated from the Tangshan Railway College in 1952 and was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1999. He established China’s first relatively complete three-dimensional heat migration model and first number model of seawater intrusion into phreatic aquifer.

28. Ge Changchun (1934- ), born in Pinghu, Zhejiang, expert on powder metallurgy and advanced ceramics, graduated from the Tangshan Railway College in 1952 and was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2001 and the World Academy of Ceramics in 2004. He has made outstanding contributions to the development of separation membranes for the production of enriched uranium by gaseous diffusion method, researches on advanced ceramics and functional gradient material resistant to high temperature plasma erosion.

29. Shi Zhongheng (1930- ), born in Shanghai, graduated from the Tangshan Railway College in 1953 and was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1999. He directed and completed the research on the key technologies of shallow-buried subway stations, proposed the method of cutting ring design by the limit equilibrium principle, and developed China’s first compressed concrete lining shield.

30. Peng Yigang (1932- ), born in Hefei, Anhui, was admitted to the Tangshan Engineering School of Northern Jiaotong University in 1950 and elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1995. He has long been engaged in the research on architectural aesthetics and architectural creation theory. His representative works include the Jiawu Memorial Hall of Liugong Island in Weihai, Shandong, and China Town in London.

31. Qian Qingquan (1936- ), born in Danyang, Jiangsu, graduated from the Tangshan Railway College in 1960 and was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1997. He has long been engaged in researches and education in railway electrification and automation. He has presided over the development of China's first set of multi-microcomputer telecontrol monitoring system for electric railway.

32. Wang Mengshu (1938- ), born in Wenxian, Henan, graduated from the Tangshan Railway College with a master’s degree in 1964 and was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1995. He has made outstanding contributions to the theoretical research, scientific experiments, new technology, new method and new process development, and guidelines for design and construction of tunnel and underground engineering works.

33. Cao Jianyou (1917-1997), born in Changsha, Hunan, worked at the Tangshan Engineering School of Northern Jiaotong University since 1951 and was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980. He was the founder of the discipline of railway traction electrification and automation. He has made outstanding contributions to the decision-making of the application of "single-phase industrial frequency AC voltage system" and the theoretical research of power supply system of electric traction in China's railway electrification.

34. Liu Dazhong (1914-1975), born in Wujin, Jiangsu, econometrician, graduated from the Jiaotong University's Tangshan Engineering College in 1936. He has made important contributions to land reform and tax reform in Taiwan, China.

35. Qian Chongshu (1883-1965), born in Haining, Zhejiang, botanist, educator, was recommended for admission in the Tangshan College of Railway and Mining in 1909 and elected as academician of the Academy of Sciences in 1955. He is one of the founders and pioneers of Chinese modern botany, plant taxonomy, plant physiology, geobotany and floristics.

36. Yu Guocong (1922- ), born in Taishan, Guangdong, expert on chemical distillation and engineering and educator, worked at the China Jiaotong University's Tangshan Engineering College from 1950 to 1952 and was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980. He is one of the pioneers of China's distillation discipline. His research achievement, precision rectification, have been applied in China's heavy water production, and his comprehensive technology that combining distillation simulation theory and high-efficiency distillation equipment has been widely used in industrial distillation.

37. Yan Dongsheng (1918-2016), born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, expert on inorganic material and materials science. He worked at the China Jiaotong University's Tangshan Engineering College from 1950 to 1955 and was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980 and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1994. He was one of the founders and pioneers of China's inorganic material science and technology and successfully developed high-temperature melting and diffusion coating, carbon fiber-reinforced ceramic composite and other materials applied in aircraft engines, satellites and long-range launch vehicles.

38. Liu Xianzhou (1890-1975), born in Wanxian, Hebei, worked at the Jiaotong University's Tangshan Engineering College from 1931 to 1932 and was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980. He was the pioneer of the Chinese science history and the first one to unify mechanical engineering terminologies in China.

39. Zhu Wuhua (1902-1998), born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, worked at the Jiaotong University's Tangshan Engineering College from 1930 to 1933 and was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980. He was one of the founders of China's electronics and underwater acoustics engineering.

40. Wu Ziliang (1917-2008), born in Pujiang, Zhejiang, materials scientist, physical metallurgist, worked at the Tangshan Engineering School of Northern Jiaotong University from 1950 to 1951 and was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980. He won the First Prize of the State Technological Invention Award and the Special Prize of the State Science and Technology Progress Award in 1984, and "Two Bombs, One Satellite” Meritorious Medal in 1984.

41. Chen Xinmin (1912-1992), born in Wangjiang, Anhui, metallurgist, educator, worked at the National Tangshan Engineering College from 1946 to 1947 and was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980. He was the pioneer of China's nonferrous metallurgy education. His research results of "metal-oxygen thermodynamics and dynamics" and "physical and chemical properties of the high-temperature melt” provide a theoretical basis for the development and comprehensive utilization of nonferrous metals in China.

42. Yuan Jianqi (1907-1991) was born in Fengxian, Shanghai. From 1949 to 1952, he worked at the National Tangshan Engineering College (later renamed as China Jiaotong University's Tangshan Engineering College, and then Tangshan Engineering School of Northern Jiaotong University), and was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980. He was one of the pioneers of the research of the exploration and development of solid salt mines and salt lake resources in China. He first proposed “terrestrial facies of salt and potassium“ theory in 1959.

43. Xu Xi (1921-2013), born in Nanjing, Jiangsu, worked at the National Jiaotong University Guizhou Campus in 1945 and was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991. He was the pioneer and founder of China's polymer material discipline, and has made important contributions to the ultrasonic degradation and copolymerization of polymer in China.

44. Wei Shoukun (1907-2014), born in Tianjin, metallurgist, metallurgical physical chemist, metallurgy educator, worked at the National Tangshan Engineering College from 1946 to 1947 and was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980. He has obtained a number of major achievements in the theoretical study and application of the metallurgical thermodynamics. He first proposed the concept of “transition temperature” and activity theory application, pioneering the direct rapid oxygen technology of solid cell in China.

45. Gao Jiyu (1902-2000), born in Wuyang, Henan, chemist, was admitted to the Tangshan University of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications in 1922 and elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980. He discovered the chain tautomerism phenomenon of diketone. He studied the influence of silver, palladium, titanium and other metals on organic reactions and found that silver can cause various forms of dimerization reactions to Haloketone.

46. Zhang Bosheng (1903-1994), born in Xingyang, Henan, geologist, geotectologist and geology educator, worked in the Jiaotong University's Tangshan Engineering College from 1931 to 1932, and was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980. He was the founder of "the theory of crust wavy mosaic structure hypothesis" in Chinese geology.

47. Xu Zuyao (1921- ), born in Ningbo, Zhejiang, materials scientists, worked at the China Jiaotong University's Tangshan Engineering College (later renamed as Tangshan Engineering School of Northern Jiaotong University, and then the Tangshan Railway College) from 1949 to 1955 and was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1995. He has rich research achievements in martensitic transition, bainitic transformation, shape memory materials and thermodynamics of materials.

48. He Huawu (1955- ), born in Ziyang, Sichuan, graduated from Southwest Jiaotong University in 1978 and was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2009. He presided over the sixth major speed-up project of China’s railways, organized major key technical breakthroughs and overall optimization of system integration in railway passenger dedicated lines (high-speed railways), providing strong technical support for the construction of passenger dedicated lines.

49. Qin Shunquan (1963- ), born in Deyang, Sichuan, obtained his bachelor’s degree in 1984 and master’s in 1987 at Southwest Jiaotong University and was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2009. He directed technical works of the design and construction of the Wuhu Yangtze River Bridge, the Haikou Century Bridge, the Donghai Bridge and other large bridges in China.

50. Zhai Wanming (1963- ), born in Jingjiang, Jiangsu, received his bachelor’s, master’s and doctor ‘s degrees at Southwest Jiaotong University In 1985, 1987, and 1992 respectively and was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011. He founded a theoretical system of locomotive-track coupling dynamics, established a unified vehicle-track model, and proposed the best matching design principle and method of locomotives and routes.

51. Li Shushen (1963- ), born I Baoding, Hebei, expert on semiconductor device physics, graduated with a master’s degree from Southwest Jiaotong University in 1989 and was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011. He is mainly engaged in the basic research of device physics in low-dimensional quantum structures of semiconductor, and proposed a physical model for studying the electronic state structure of semiconductor coupled quantum dots (rings).

52. Ding Rongjun (1954- ), born in Yixing, Jiangsu, graduated from Southwest Jiaotong University in 1984 and was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2011. He has long been engaged in innovative research and achievement transformation of traction control, traction conversion and network control technologies of the rail transit, making major contributions to the breakthrough development of China's railways from the stages of ordinary to heavy loads and from normal speed to high speed.

53. Yu Haisui (1964- ), born in Shexian, Anhui, pursued his postgraduate study at Southwest Jiaotong University in 1985 and was elected as academician of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering in 2011. His main research fields include geotechnical mechanics analysis and calculation, plasticity and constitutive models, geotechnical in-situ tests and road geotechnical engineering. He was awarded the D.H. Trollope Medal for Outstanding Achievement by the Australian Geomechanics Society in 1998, and the Telford Medal by the Institution of Civil Engineers in 2000.

54. Jing Fuqian (1929-2012), born in Huaiyin, Jiangsu, an expert on condensed state physics, worked as adjunct professor at Southwest Jiaotong University and was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991. He was one of the pioneers in the field of experimental implosion dynamics and dynamic high-pressure physics in China, and has made important research achievements in the fields of dynamic properties of materials, high-temperature and high-pressure equations of state, and physical properties of materials under high-temperature and high-pressure.

55. Liu Baojun (1931- ), born in Tianjin, geologist, worked at Southwest Jiaotong University since 2000 and was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991. His research fields cover sedimentology, basin analysis and plate motion, etc. He was awarded the Spendiarov Prize in the 30th International Geological Congress.

56. Wu Zhihui (1865-1953), born in Wujin, Jiangsu, thinker, politician, educator and calligrapher, worked at the Tangshan Industrial Technical School from 1918 to 1919.

57. Tian Hongqi (1959- ), born in Lushan, Henan, expert on railway aerodynamics and train impact dynamics, was admitted to Southwest Jiaotong University as a doctoral candidate in the programme of locomotives and vehicles in 1994 and elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2015.

58. Ren Huiqi (1953- ), born in Changsha, Hunan, expert on weapon destruction effect and engineering protection, was admitted to Southwest Jiaotong University as a doctoral candidate in the programme of engineering mechanics in 1994 and received his doctor of engineering. In 2015, he was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

59. Hu Chunnong (1920- ), renowned bridge engineer, graduated from the National Jiaotong University Guizhou Campus in 1942, worked at the Tangshan Engineering School of Northern Jiaotong University (later renamed Tangshan Railway College) from 1951 to 1958, and was elected as member of the UK Royal Academy of Sciences in 1950. He has long been committed to the research and teaching of bridge technology, specialized in optical measurement technology and bridge and structure engineering, and made outstanding achievements in welding theory and testing technology.