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Revision History:

Biography Revised: 6/11/2003
Career Data Updated: 3/26/2006

PHOTO: Yu Guocong
Yu Guocong 余国琮
Chemical Distillation Expert, Standing Committee Member of the CPPCC

Biography

Yu Guocong, male, Han nationality, is a native of Taishan County, Guangdong Province. He was born in 1922, graduated from Southwestern Associated University in 1943 and received his master's from the University of Pittsburgh in 1947.

Yu Guocong has long been engaged in the study of distillation theory and technology. He has made several strides forward in the theory and technology of distillation tower simulation and amplification. He put up a more comprehensive theory of distillation procedure for the unstable state and a new strategy of multivariant parameters for batch distillation.

Yu has also made several achievements in the fields of gas-liquid interface and computational transmission. His achievements won him the prize of the National Science Conference, the 2nd grade and the 3rd grade prize for National Science and Technology Progress, the 1st grade and the 2nd grade prize for Science and Technology Progress awarded by the State Education Commission, the He-Liang-He-Li Foundation Prize for Scientific and Technological Research Progress, and the 1st grade prize for National Scientific and Technological Books.

Yu is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a member of the standing committee of the CPPCC.

Career Data

Winner, (National Science Conference Prize)
Winner, (2nd Grade Prize, National Science and Technology Progress)
Winner, (3rd Grade Prize, National Science and Technology Progress)
Winner, (1st Grade Prize, Science and Technology Progress, State Education Commission)
Winner, (2nd Grade Prize, Science and Technology Progress, State Education Commission)
Winner, (He-Liang-He-Li Foundation Prize for Scientific and Technological Research Progress)
Winner, (1st Grade Prize, National Scientific and Technological Books)
1991— Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Academician, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
President, Tianjin University, Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Tianjin Municipality
Associate Dean, Tianjin University, Chemistry Department Tianjin Municipality
1952 Professor, Tianjin University, Chemistry Department Tianjin Municipality
1947 Graduate, University of Pittsburgh USA, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh (Received Master's Degree)
1943 Graduate, Southwest Associated University Yunnan Province, Kunming City


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