Feng Duan was a physicist of China, an expert in solid-state physics.
16 Facts About Feng Duan
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Feng Duan was a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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Feng Duan was a delegate to the 6th, 7th and 8th National People's Congress.
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Feng Duan was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu, though his ancestral hometown is Shaoxing, Zhejiang.
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Feng Duan's father Feng Zupei was an official in the Nationalist government.
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Feng Duan's second elder brother, Feng Kang, was a prominent Chinese mathematician, and a member of CAS.
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Feng Duan's elder sister Feng Hui was a researcher at the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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Feng Duan's brother-in-law Ye Duzheng was a meteorologist and a member of CAS.
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In 1942, after graduating from Suzhou High School, Feng Duan entered National Central University, studying physics.
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Feng Duan graduated in 1946 and stayed at the University, serving as a teaching assistant in physics department.
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Feng Duan was the president of graduate school of Nanjing University, and the director of state key laboratory of solid-state micro-structure physics.
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Feng Duan used to serve as president of China Physics Society, first scientist of "Nano Material Science", a "climbing project" of National Commission of Science and Technology, and the chairman of Jiangsu Science and Technology Association.
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Feng Duan was elected to member of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980.
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Feng Duan was the chairman of alumni association of National Central University.
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Feng Duan died on December 15,2020, in Nanjing, Jiangsu, aged 97.
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Feng Duan married Chen Lianfang in Nanjing on April 1,1955.