Chen Jiayong:Pioneer in hydrometallurgy and chemical engineering disciplines

• 作者: Zai-Sha Mao Huizhou Liu Chao Yang
• 来源期刊: 中国化学工程学报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2022,（1）
• 所属期刊栏目: Review
• 页码范围: 2-5
• 页数: 4页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Dr.Chen Jiayong (Chia-Yung) was born on Feb.17,1922 in a prestigous intellectual clan at Jintang County,Sichuan Province,China.After receiving early education at the Chengdu County Middle School (now Chengdu 7th School),he was admitted as an undergraduate student to the Department of Chemical Engineering,the National Central University at the city of Chongqing from 1939 through 1943 dur-ing the Anti-Japanese War.After gradua-tion,he continued to work as a teaching assistant for both the inorganic and organic chemistry courses.In 1947,he enrolled in the graduate program in the Department of Chemical Engineering on the Urbana-Champaign campus,University of Illinois,USA,and was conferred the MS and PhD degrees in 1949 and 1951 respec-tively.His doctoral thesis topic was on reaction kinetics of carbon with vapor and water in a porous graphite tube.In 1948,he mar-ried Ms.Liu Rong who was also studying at University of Illinois.After graduation in 1951,his intention was to return to China,but his journey was delayed by the US government due to the out-break of the Korean War.During this period,he took positions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology,University of Illinois(Urbana-Champaign),and the Yerkes Institute of the DuPont Film Division at Buffalo,NY.