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Cai Liusheng
Cai Liusheng
蔡镏生
Born	16 August 1902; Quanzhou, Fujian, Qing China
Died	24 October 1983 (aged 81); Changchun, Jilin, China
Alma mater	Yenching University; University of Chicago
	Scientific career
Fields	Physical chemistry
Institutions	Jilin University
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	蔡镏生
Traditional Chinese	蔡鎦生
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Cài Liúshēng
Wade–Giles	Liu-Sheng T'sai
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ	Chhòa Liû-seng

Cai Liusheng (Chinese: 蔡鎦生; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chhòa Liû-seng; 18 September 1902 – 24 October 1983) was a Chinese physical chemist and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was one of the founders of catalytic kinetics in China.^[1] He was a delegate to the 3rd and 5th National People's Congress.

Early life

Cai was born into a peasant family in Quanzhou, Fujian, on 18 September 1902. He studied at Peiyuan High School (培元中学),^[1] and became fascinated by chemistry in childhood.^[1] In 1924, he graduated from Yenching University, where he majored in the Chemistry.^[1]

He arrived in the United States in 1929 to begin his education at the University of Chicago.^[1] He returned to China after his graduation and worked at his alma mater.^[1] In the spring of 1948, he was invited to the University of Washington as a visiting scholar. In 1949, he gave up the opportunity to be employed as a professor at the Graduate School of St. Louis Medical University and returned to China to become director of the Department of Chemistry at Yanjing University.^[1]

In 1952, in response to the call of the Communist government, he went to Northeast Renmin University (later restructured as Jilin University), where he cooperated with Tang Aoqing, Guan Shizhi and Tao Weisun [zh] to establish the Department of Chemistry.^[2] He joined the Communist Party on 4 May 1982.

On 24 October 1983, he died of illness in Changchun, Jilin, aged 81.^[1]

Recognition

1957 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h 功勋人物谱科技篇：中国催化动力学研究的奠基人——蔡镏生 [One of the founders of catalytic kinetics in China: Cai Liusheng]. qq.com (in Chinese). 18 June 2020. Retrieved 11 August 2021.
^ 蔡镏生 [Cai Liusheng]. jlu.edu.cn (in Chinese). 1 November 2019. Archived from the original on 11 August 2021. Retrieved 11 August 2021.