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About Hou Debang
- Hou Debang (Chinese: ???; 9 August 1890 – 26 August 1974), also known as Hou Qirong (???) and Hou Te-Pang, was a Chinese chemist and chemical engineer.
- He was born in Taijiang District of Fuzhou (then known as Houguan County).
- Graduating from Tsinghua Preparatory School in 1912, Hou was one of the scholars sent to the United States to study modern technologies.
- He obtained his master's degree in chemical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1917), and later obtained his doctoral degree at Columbia University (1921).From 1950, Hou Debang served as a consultant in the chemical industry bureau of the Ministry of Heavy Industry.
- In 1957 he joined the Communist Party of China and in 1959 was appointed deputy minister of the Ministry of Chemical Industry.
- Among Hou's discoveries was his 1933 improvement to the Solvay process for producing sodium carbonate.
- On August 26, 1974, already ill from leukemia, he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died.
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