开创世界工程建筑结构新理论,享有“预应力混凝土先生”、桥梁专家美誉的一代土木工程大师——林同炎教授,于2003年11月15日在美国的家中去世,享年91岁。 林同炎教授1912年出生于福州,1931年毕业于唐山交通大学,后去美国加州伯克利大学深造,1933年学成回国。曾任成渝铁路桥梁课长、滇缅铁路设计主任等职。1946年被聘 Professor Lin Tongyan, a generation of civil engineering masters who pioneered the new theory of architectural engineering in the world and enjoyed the title of “prestressed concrete” and bridge expert, passed away his home in the United States on November 15, 2003, at the age of 91. Professor Lin was born in Fuzhou in 1912 and graduated from Tangshan Jiaotong University in 1931. He went to study at Berkeley University in California and returned to China in 1933. Former Chengdu-Chongqing railway bridge section chief, Burma railway design director and other staff. Hired in 1946