Chengzong Yang's 100th Birthday was celebrated in Beijing

On September 16th of 2010, there were more than 400 famous scholars, including many VIPs, such as Wenjun Wu, Zehui He, Guangxian Xu, Mooson Kwauk, Fangding Wang, and Jiannian Yao, attending the ceremony for Mr. Chengzong Yang's 100th Birthday in Beijing. The Heads from our USTC, Mr. Wu Xu and Mr. Jianguo Hou, both flied to Beijing, and gave special speech for celebrating the 100th birthday. Although Mr. Yang got a little cold staying in hospital, he enjoyed the ceremony by videos.

Mr. Yang is well known as a famous scientist and educationalist in China, who once was the founder of radiochemistry and also the Vice-President of USTC. From 1947 to 1951, Yang did research on radiochemistry in the Curie Institute in University of Paris under Professor Ir ne Joliot-Curie, who had won the Nobel Prize in 1935.

He came back to China, his motherland, with great passion in 1953. During the following three years, he was leading a group of research specialists, and proviced enough Uranium for the first Atomic Bomb in China. In 1958, at the beginning of founding USTC, Yang set up the Department of Radiochemistry and Radiation Chemistry, and acted as the head of the department.

Because of the establishment of the department in USTC, Yang raised groups of talented scholars in radiochemistry field for the country, China. Just as Mr. Yang's comments by himself, he just have done two big things all his life: one is that he extracted Uranium from ore for the first Atomic Bomb in China; the other is that he set up a new department in USTC.

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