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Biography

Shen Wenqing, male, Han nationality, is a native of Shanghai. He graduated from the Engineering Physics Department of Tsinghua University in 1967 and is an experimental nuclear physicist.

Shen's experiments at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Modern Physics won him acclaim when he confirmed particle admissions caused by the reaction in great mass transfer in low-energy nuclear reactions. He studied and then confirmed the existence of deep inelastic scattering in light systems. Shen later verified the existence of a new reaction mechanism in non-complete deep inelastic scattering. His experiments are credited with assisting in the construction of national experimental area of heavy ion acceleration in Lanzhou.

In the 1980s, he obtained the optimum mass and charge distribution with software corrections methods used at Germany's Ion Research Center. Shen also detected four new nucleins and measured the physical character of quasi-atomic fission and the relaxation time of mass. Along with his students at the academy's Shanghai Institute of Nuclear Research, he devised a parameterization formula suitable for the section of nuclear reaction in low and intermediate energy.

Shen is a research fellow in the academy's Shanghai Institute of Nuclear Research and was elected as an academician to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1999.