Yu Dequan


Yu Dequan was a Chinese pharmaceutical chemist, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Biography

Yu was born into a family of farming background in Penglai County, Shandong, on 22 October 1932.
In 1947, he became a worker at the Xinhua Pharmaceutical Factory under the Department of Health of Jiaodong Military Region. In 1952, he was accepted to Beijing Medical College, where he majored in pharmaceutical chemistry. After graduating in 1956, he was despatched to the Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. Between 1980 and 1981, he studied at the Institute of Natural Material Chemistry, French Academy of Sciences.
On 31 December 2022, he died in Beijing, at the age of 90.

Honours and awards