Peng Sixun (; 28 July 1919 – 9 December 2018) was a Chinese medicinal chemist.
A native of
Baojing County, Peng was of
Tujia Tujia may refer to:
*the Tujia people
*the Tujia language
The Tujia language (Northern Tujia: Bifzivsar, ; Southern Tujia: Mongrzzirhof, ; ) is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken natively by the Tujia people in Hunan Province, China. It is unclassif ...
descent. He graduated from the
National College of Pharmacy in 1942, and completed a master's degree at
Columbia University in 1950. Peng returned to teach at his alma mater, which had been renamed
China Pharmaceutical University
China Pharmaceutical University (CPU) is a university in Nanjing, China that specializes in the pharmaceutical sciences. It is one of national key universities under the Double First Class University Plan and former “Project 211” and universi ...
, and was elected to the
Chinese Academy of Engineering in February 1996. Peng died at the age of 99 on 9 December 2018.
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1919 births
2018 deaths
20th-century chemists
Columbia University alumni
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Tujia people
Chemists from Hunan
Medicinal chemistry
China Pharmaceutical University alumni
People from Xiangxi
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