Hu Hongwen (; 16 March 1925 – 19 May 2016) was a Chinese

organic chemist Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline within chemistry involving the scientific study of the structure, properties, and reactions of organic compounds and organic materials, i.e., matter in its various forms that contain carbon atoms.Clayden, J. ...

, educator and an academician 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 Republi ...

(CAS). He was known as the Chief editor of Chinese higher education textbook ''Organic Chemistry''. Hu died on 19 May 2016 at the age of 91 in

Nanjing Nanjing (; , Mandarin pronunciation: ), alternately romanized as Nanking, is the capital of Jiangsu province of the People's Republic of China. It is a sub-provincial city, a megacity, and the second largest city in the East China region. T ...

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1925 births 2016 deaths Chemists from Sichuan Harbin Institute of Technology alumni Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Moscow State University alumni Nanjing University alumni Academic staff of Nanjing University Organic chemists People's Republic of China science writers Writers from Guang'an {{China-scientist-stub