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‘Father of biomechanics’ has passed away at 100

Taipei Times
Date: Dec 28, 2019
By: Staff writer, with CNA

Chinese-born American bioengineer Fung Yuan-cheng (馮元楨), considered the “father of

Academia Sinica academician Fung Yuan-cheng, known as the “father of modern biomechanics” and one of the founders of the bioengineering program at the University of California, San Diego, speaks at an honorary doctorate conferment ceremony at National Central University in Taoyuan in an undated photograph.
Photo courtesy of National Central University via CNA\

modern biomechanics,” died on Dec. 15 at 100 years old, an obituary released on Friday last week by the University of California, San Diego said.

Born in 1919, Fung, who was also called Bert, obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at National Central University (then located in China and later reinstated in Taiwan), before earning a doctorate in aeronautics in 1948 from the California Institute of Technology, where he was an assistant professor and researcher for 20 years.

In 1966, Fung joined the University of California, San Diego, where he cofounded its bioengineering program and recruited Chien Shu (錢煦), a renowned physiologist and bioengineer, as a lecturer.

Chien, who is president of the Biomedical Engineering Society, has said that Fung applied the principles of fluid mechanics to biomedical engineering, and adopted a more precise and realistic way of thinking about human health.    [FULL  STORY]

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