- Yang Fuyu
Yang Fuyu (
Traditional Chinese : 楊福愉,Simplified Chinese : 杨福愉) (1927 -), a Chinesebiochemist andbiophysicist , is the main founder ofbiomembrane study inChina . Widely regarded as "The Father of Chinese Membrane Biology". He is the current chief of the National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics,Chinese Academy of Sciences .Life
Yang is a native of
Ningbo ,Zhejiang Province and was born inShanghai in1927 . He graduated from the Department of Chemistry,Zhejiang University in1950 . Just after his graduation, he worked for the Institute of Experimental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) as an assistant.In
1956 , Yang went toUSSR and studied at the Department of Biology,Moscow State University until1960 when he received aPhD there.Yang is a long-serving senior
scientist at the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also aprofessor of the institute, a professor of the Graduate School,University of Science and Technology of China and a professor atWuhan University .Academic positions
* Academician,
Chinese Academy of Sciences (elected1991 )
*General Secretary (1993 -1997 ), Chinese Biochemical Society
*Vice-president (1982 -1984 ,1993 -1997 ), Chinese Biochemical Society
*Editor-in-Chief , "Acta Biophysica Sinica"Family
Yang's younger brother, the
nuclear physicist Fujia Yang , is currentChancellor of theUniversity of Nottingham in Britain.References
* [http://www.chinavitae.com/biography/Yang_Fuyu ChinaVitae - YANG Fuyu] (English)
* [http://www.hlhl.org.cn/english/showsub.asp?id=271 The Holeung Ho Lee Foundation: AWARDEE OF LIFE SCIENCES PRIZE - YANG FUYU] (English)
* [http://ilib.cn/A-swwlxb200705002.html YANG Fuyu - the Father of Chinese Membrane Biology] (Chinese)
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