Yu Min is a native of Ninghe County, Hebei Province. He was born in 1926 and is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He studied for his Master’s degree in Beijing University and acted as assistant teacher concurrently in 1949.
A nuclear physicist, Yu began serving as a researcher at the Modern Physics Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1951. During his time with the academy, he studied nuclear weapon theory and solved a series of problems concerning thermal nuclear physics related to H-bomb tests.
In 1965, he was transferred to the 9th Research Institute of Second Mechanized Division and acted as vice director of the Department of theories, superintendent of the research Institute of theories ,vice president of the research institute, the deputy director of Science and Technology Commission of the CAEP, the senior scientific advisor of CAEP. He solved a series of basic problems on the breakthrough of hydrogen bomb principle and brought up the whole scheme from the principle to configuration, which played a key role. Since the 1970s, he has been a pioneer and propellant of a number of high-tech research projects, which has played an important role.
His work in this area played a critical role in the design of the bomb. As a result of his efforts with nuclear weapon theory, he has won the national scientific progress prizes three times, was honored as a national labor model, and in 1992 was awarded the Guanghua Special Prize.
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