Yang Fuyu

Summary

Yang Fuyu (Chinese: 杨福愉; 30 October 1927 – 5 January 2023) was a Chinese biochemist, biophysicist and writer. He was the main founder of biomembrane study in China. He served as chief of the National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Yang Fuyu
杨福愉
Born(1927-10-30)30 October 1927
Died5 January 2023(2023-01-05) (aged 95)
Beijing, China
Alma materZhejiang University
Moscow State University
Scientific career
FieldsBiochemistry
InstitutionsInstitute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese杨福愉
Traditional Chinese楊福愉

Life edit

Yang was a native of Ningbo, Zhejiang, and was born in Shanghai in 1927. He graduated from the Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University in 1950. Just after his graduation, he worked for the Institute of Experimental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) as an assistant.

In 1956, Yang went to USSR and studied at the Department of Biology, Moscow State University until 1960 when he received a PhD there.

Yang was a long-serving senior scientist at the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was also a professor of the institute, a professor of the Graduate School, University of Science and Technology of China and a professor at Wuhan University.

Yang died on 5 January 2023 in Beijing, at the age of 95.[1]

Academic positions edit

Family edit

Yang's younger brother was the nuclear physicist Yang Fujia.

References edit

  1. ^ "著名生物化学家杨福愉院士逝世,享年96岁" (in Chinese). Jiemian News. 7 January 2022. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  • ChinaVitae - YANG Fuyu (in English)
  • The Holeung Ho Lee Foundation: AWARDEE OF LIFE SCIENCES PRIZE - YANG FUYU (in English)
  • YANG Fuyu - the Father of Chinese Membrane Biology Archived 2011-07-07 at the Wayback Machine (in Chinese)