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DeutschYu Guocong
Yu Guocong | |||||||
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余国琮 | |||||||
| Born | 18 November 1922 | ||||||
| Died | 6 April 2022 (aged 99) Tianjin, China | ||||||
| Alma mater | National Southwestern Associated University University of Michigan University of Pittsburgh | ||||||
| Scientific career | |||||||
| Fields | Chemical separation science and engineering | ||||||
| Institutions | Tianjin University | ||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 余国琮 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 余國琮 | ||||||
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Yu Guocong (18 November 1922 – 6 April 2022) was a Chinese scientist who was a professor at Tianjin University, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was a member of the China Association for Promoting Democracy. He was a member of the 6th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a member of the Standing Committee of the 7th and 8th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Biography[edit]
Yu was born in Taishan County, Guangdong, on 18 November 1922.[1] In 1937, the Imperial Japanese Army invaded Guangdong, his two old brothers were bombed during the war, one died and the other was seriously injured.[1] His family fled to British Hong Kong due to the aggression of Empire of Japan.[1] In 1939, he entered National Southwestern Associated University, majoring in the Department of Chemical Engineering.[1] After graduating in 1943, he became an assistant engineer at the Central Industrial Experiment Institute of the Ministry of Economy.[1] In 1944, Yu pursued advanced studies in the United States, first earning Master of Science degree from the University of Michigan in 1945 and then Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1947.[1] After graduation, he stayed and taught at the University of Pittsburgh.[1][2]
In August 1950, Yu returned to China in the name of visiting relatives in British Hong Kong.[1] At the invitation of Mao Yisheng, then president of North Jiaotong University, Yu became a professor and head of the newly founded Department of Chemical Engineering, Tangshan Institute of Technology (now Southwest Jiaotong University).[1] In the summer of 1952, the Department of Chemical Engineering was incorporated into Tianjin University, and Yu was transferred to Tianjin University as a professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering.[1] In 1983, the Institute of Chemical Engineering was established, and Yu served as the founding director.[1] In 1985, he founded the Chemical Separation Technology and New Filler Development Center and set up a filler factory, thus forming a pattern of research, development and production.[1] In 1991, the State Planning Commission invested in the establishment of the Distillation Laboratory of the Joint State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering in Tianjin University, with Yu as the director.[1][2]
On 6 April 2022, he died of an illness in Tianjin, at the age of 99.[2][1]
Honours and awards[edit]
- 1991 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
- 1998 Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation
