Peng returned to China in 1947, and taught at Yunnan University, Tsinghua University, Peking University and University of Science and Technology of China. He was involved in and led the development of China's atomic bomb and hydrogen bomb. He was the deputy director of the Institute of Atomic Energy, also known as Institute 401, in 1960 and became the deputy director of the Ninth Institute (now Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics) under the Second Ministry of Machine Building in April 1961.[10] He served as vice director of Institute of Modern Physics of CAS, vice director of Institute of High Energy Physics of CAS, among other posts.[11] From 1978 to 1983, he was the director of Institute of Theoretical Physics of CAS.
Honours and recognition
Peng received numerous prestigious prizes in China including National Natural Science Prize and National Science and Technology Advancement Prize. In recognition of his contribution to China's nuclear physics, the asteroid #48798 was named after him as "Penghuanwu".[12]
^W. Heitler and H. W. Peng, Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. 38 (1942), 296
^J. Hamilton, W. Heitler, and H. W. Peng Theory of Cosmic-Ray Mesons Physical Review Volume 64, Issue 3-4, pp. 78-94, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, Ireland.
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