Wang Dexi, male, Han nationality, is a native of Banpu, Gunyun County. He was born in 1913 and studied at Tsinghua University starting in 1931. He passed the university's postgraduate entrance exam in 1935. Wang traveled to the United States in 1941 to study at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned a doctorate degree in 1946.
A former dean of the chemistry department at Tianjin University, Wang spent the early part of his career affiliated with the Ministry of Nuclear Industry. He was deputy chief of the ministry's nuclear energy research institute as well as a standing member of the science and technology committee. Wang was later promoted to dean of the ministry's postgraduate department.
His chemistry research, which has focused on macromolecule and radioactive issues, has won him the May 1st Labor medal as well as the Scientific Progress Prize of the He-liang He-li Fund. He was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980.
Wang serves as a researcher of the China Nuclear Energy Science Research Institute. He is a chief of the technological consultation committee an honorary chief of the postgraduate department at the institute.