Chen Jiayong was a Chinese metallurgist and chemical engineer.
14 Facts About Chen Jiayong
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Chen Jiayong was a research professor and Vice President of the Institute of Process Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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Chen Jiayong was awarded the State Science and Technology Prizes five times and the Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress in 1996.
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Chen Jiayong was the fourth child and eldest son of his father Chen Songpu, a school teacher.
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Chen Jiayong studied under some of the then top chemists of the country, including Du Changming, Gao Jiyu, and Shi Jun After graduating in 1943, he was hired by the university as a faculty member.
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Chen Jiayong's highly cited paper "Filtration of Aerosols by Fibrous Media" was published in the journal Chemical Reviews in 1955.
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Chen Jiayong spent years working under harsh conditions at the copper mine of Dongchuan, Yunnan, and oversaw the construction of a copper factory nearby, which was opened in 1964.
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Chen Jiayong worked at the mines in Jinchuan, Gansu and Panzhihua, Sichuan, and made technological breakthroughs to efficiently separate non-ferrous metals such as gold, silver, copper, nickel, and cobalt.
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Chen Jiayong later served as Vice President of the Institute of Process Engineering.
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Chen Jiayong supervised more than 50 graduate students, and published reference books including A Handbook on Hydrometallurgy.
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Chen Jiayong was awarded the State Science and Technology Prizes five times and the Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress in 1996.
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Chen Jiayong was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980.
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Chen Jiayong served five consecutive terms as a member of the 4th to the 8th National Committees of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
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In 1948, Chen Jiayong married his university classmate Liu Rong in the United States.