Yan Dongsheng, known as Tung-sheng Yen or T S Yen, was a Chinese inorganic chemist and material scientist.
12 Facts About Yan Dongsheng
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Yan Dongsheng was a fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
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Yan Dongsheng was a member of the Chinese Communist Party and Jiu San Society.
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Yan Dongsheng was a Standing Committee member of the 6th and 7th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
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Yan Dongsheng's father was a graduate of Peiyang University and worked in the Beijing-Hankou Railway Administration as an engineer.
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Yan Dongsheng's mother was an alumna of Hangzhou Woman Normal College.
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Yan Dongsheng attended Beijing Chongde High School, during that time, he developed an interest in science and English.
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In 1941, the Pacific War broke out, because of the university suspended for the war, Yan Dongsheng was employed in Private China University alongside Zhang Zigao.
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Yan Dongsheng earned a PhD from the University of Illinois in 1949 and did postdoctoral work in the United States in 1950.
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Yan Dongsheng returned to China in 1950 and that year became a researcher at the Institute of Metallurgy and Ceramics of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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Yan Dongsheng was elected vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1981, and three years later promoted to First Vice-president and Party Group Secretary positions.
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In 1943 Yan Dongsheng married his classmate Sun Birou, who is a scientist and professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.