Yisheng Mao, Chinese structural engineer (Dantu, Jiangsu Province 09 January 1896 – Beijing 12 November 1989)

Authored over 200 papers and 6 books

Regarded as founder of modern bridge engineering

Authored his dissertation Secondary stresses in Bridge Truss where enunciated Mao law (1919)

MEMBERSHIP

Senior Member, International Bridge and Structural Project Association

Foreign Academician, National Academy of Sciences, United States (1956)

Honorary Members, Canadian Society of Civil Engineers