Chen Junwu (Chinese: 陈俊武; born March 17, 1927) is a Chinese engineer and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).[1]
Chen Junwu | |||||||
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Alma mater | Peking University | ||||||
Spouse | Wu Ningfang | ||||||
Children | 2 | ||||||
Scientific career | |||||||
Fields | Oil-refinery engineering | ||||||
Institutions | Luoyang Petrochemical Engineering Corporation Ltd | ||||||
Chinese name | |||||||
Traditional Chinese | 陳俊武 | ||||||
Simplified Chinese | 陈俊武 | ||||||
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Chen was born in Beijing, on March 17, 1927, while his ancestral home in Fuzhou, Fujian. His father Chen Xunchang was a politician in late Qing dynasty and early Republic of China. He is the younger brother of Chen Shunyao ( the wife of Song Ping ) and brother in law of Song Ping.[2] He attended Chongde Middle School (now Beijing No.31 High School). In 1944 he was accepted to Peking University, majoring in the Department of Applied Chemistry, where he graduated in 1948.[3]
In December 1949 he became a technician at a petroleum plant in Fushun, northeast China's Liaoning province.[4] In 1956 he joined the Fushun Design Institute of the Ministry of Petroleum Industry. Three years later, he was appointed an architect at Datong Coal Refinery Plant. Then he joined Luoyang Engineering Company. In 1982 he joined Sinopec.
In 2018, Chen Junwu's biography was published, written by Zhang Wenxin (张文欣), a well known Luoyang-based author. While he's absent to attend the funeral of his elder sister Chen Shunyao on August 3. 2019.[2]
Chen married Wu Ningfang (吴凝芳) and the couple has two daughters, Chen Ling (陈玲) and Chen Xin (陈欣).[3]