Yuan Quan (chemist)


Yuan Quan was a Chinese chemist who was director of the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics from 1986 to 1994, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
He was a representative of the 14th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.

Biography

Yuan was born in Shanghai, on 2 November 1934, while his ancestral home in Deqing County, Zhejiang. He graduated from Zhejiang University majoring in chemical engineering before gaining a master's degree from the Institute of Petroleum, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
After graduating in 1960, he stayed for researching. In November 1978, he became a visiting scholar at Stanford University. In 1986 he was promoted to become director of the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, a position he held until 1994.
On 29 October 2023, he died of an illness in Dalian, Liaoning, at the age of 88.

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