Jin Hongguang (; ; May 9, 1957 – ) is a Chinese physical chemist, fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Biography

Jin Hongguang was born in

Changchun Changchun (, ; ), also romanized as Ch'angch'un, is the capital and largest city of Jilin Province, People's Republic of China. Lying in the center of the Songliao Plain, Changchun is administered as a , comprising 7 districts, 1 county and 3 c ...

, Jilin Province on May 9, 1957. Both of his parents are Korean

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s. He grew up in local Korean schools. In 1978, he took the National College Entrance Examination after the

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. Despite the language barriers, he was admitted to Northeast Electric Power University. After graduation in 1982, he became a researcher at Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and completed his master's degree there from August 1986 to January 1990. In 1991, he went to

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with a

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(UNDP) scholarship, and obtained his doctorate in 1994. Afterwards, he became a Tokyo Tech Associate Professor. In 1998，He was honored as a Distinguished Young Scholar by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (). He returned to China next year to lead

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research projects. He was elected as a fellow of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2013.

Awards and honors

*Distinguished Young Scholar by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars () - 1999 *

leading scientist () - 1999 *National Natural Science Award () - 2009 *

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Science and Technology Progress Award () - 2011 *Fellow of Chinese Academy of Sciences () - 2013

References

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