Zhan Wenshan (; February 1941 – 9 May 2019) was a Chinese electrical engineer and physicist who specialized in the research of

magnetism Magnetism is the class of physical attributes that are mediated by a magnetic field, which refers to the capacity to induce attractive and repulsive phenomena in other entities. Electric currents and the magnetic moments of elementary particles ...

. He was the founding director of the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry (TIPC) of the

Chinese Academy of Sciences The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); ), known by Academia Sinica in English until the 1980s, is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for natural sciences. It has historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Republ ...

. He also served as professor and vice director of the

Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences The Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOPCAS ) was the result of a merger, after the communist took control of the mainland China in 1949, between the Institute of Physics of Academia Sinica (IOPAS) founded in Shanghai in 19 ...

Biography

Zhan was born in February 1941. After graduating from the Department of Physics of the

University of Science and Technology of China A university () is an educational institution, institution of higher education, higher (or Tertiary education, tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. Universities ty ...

in 1963, he began working for the

. He later served as Director of the National Key Laboratory for Magnetism and Vice Director of the Institute of Physics. When the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry (TIPC) of the

was established in June 1999, Zhan was appointed its first director. Zhan published more than 100 research papers and supervised dozens of master's and doctoral students, as well as postdoctoral researchers. He also held 16 patents in China and the United States. His research won the 1978 National Science Congress Award and the 1980 Chinese Academy of Sciences First Prize. Zhan died of an illness on 9 May 2019 in Beijing, at the age of 78.

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