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Place of Birth: Wuhan, Hubei, China
About Peng Shaoyi
- Peng Shaoyi (Chinese: ???; pinyin: Péng Shaoyì; Wade–Giles: P'eng Shao-i; 9 November 1917 – 6 May 2017) was a Chinese physical chemist.
- Peng was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 1980.
- He was a member of China Democratic League since 1956. Peng's ancestral home is Liyang of Southern Jiangsu, he was born on 9 November 1917 in Wuchang, Wuhan.
- Peng had never received formal education until he attended the provincial high school.
- At 17 he enrolled at Wuhan University.
- Following the relocation of the university, he arrived in Leshan, Sichuan where he graduated from in 1939.
- Then he was appointed a research assistant at a fuel factory of the Chongqing government.
- He departed for the U.S in 1947, began his abroad studying and researching.
- He returned to China in 1949. Peng severed at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS and Institute of Coal Chemistry, CAS.
- He concentrated on the catalysts for petroleum refining and chromatography.
- He was also deemed a pioneer of Chinese chromatography. On the early morning of the 6 May 2017, Peng died of deteriorating health.
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