Tang Youqi

Tang Youqi (Chinese: 唐有祺; pinyin: Táng Yǒuqí; 11 July 1920 – 8 November 2022) was a Chinese physical chemist who was a professor at Peking University, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.^{[citation needed]}

He was a member of the 6th, 7th and 8th Central Committee of Jiusan Society.^{[citation needed]} 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.^{[citation needed]}

Biography

Tang was born in

Tang returned to China in September 1951 and that same year became associate professor of the Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University.^[1] In 1952, the Communist government carried out a nationwide readjustment of colleges and universities, the department was merged into Peking University.^[1] He was promoted to full professor in December 1963.^[2] In 1984, he was chosen as director of the Institute of Physical Chemistry, Peking University, and became director of the Beijing State Key Laboratory of Molecular Dynamic and Steady State Structural Chemistry in 1991.^[2]

On 8 November 2022, he died from an illness at Peking University Third Hospital, at the age of 102.^[3]

Personal life

In 1952, Tang married Zhang Lizhu (张丽珠), an expert in

• 1980 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
• 1996 Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation

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