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Who's Who, Current Chinese Leaders
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Revision History:

Biography Revised: 5/19/2003
Career Data Updated: 3/26/2006

PHOTO: Feng Xinde
Feng Xinde 冯新德
High Polymer Chemist

Biography

Feng Xinde, male, Han nationality, is a native of Wujiang, Jiangsu Province. He graduated from Tsinghua University in 1937 and received his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in the United States in 1948.

Feng Xinde is one of the initiators, and founders, of high polymer chemistry in China. He has long been devoted to teaching and the basic research of high polymer chemistry. His research interest includes radical, photo-induced charge-transfer polymerization, and grafting and block co-polymerization of vinyl monomers. His research on biomedical high polymer chemistry is focused on anticoagulant materials, drug controlled release system, and initiation mechanism of polymer aging and bio-aging processes.

Feng is in charge of Alkenes Polymerization, a major "Seventh Five-Year" project of the China Science Foundation, and Alkenes Polymerization & Refinement of Reaction Product, a major "Eighth Five-Year" project of China Science Foundation. Feng is the Editor-in-chief of "Acta Pymerica Sinica" and the "Chinese Journal of Polymer Science" (an English language journal) for many years. Feng is also the former technical advisor of SINOPEC.

Feng is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Career Data

Guest Professor, Kyoto University, Japan Research Center of Medical High Polymer Materials Japan, Kyoto
2000 (Winner, China Ministry of Education Blue Ribbon of High Polymer Biomedical Research Award)
1998 (Winner, Heliang-Heli Science and Technology Progress Chemistry Award)
1997 (Winner, Japan Makromol Chem's International Award)
1989 (Winner, China Chemistry Association's Award of Outstanding Teacher)
1984 (Winner, Japan Makromol Chem's Lecturer Award)
Advisor, Sinopec Corp.
Guest Professor, University of Washington, Biological Engineering Center USA, Washington, Seattle
1980— Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1952—2003 Professor, Beijing University Beijing Municipality
1948—1952 Professor, Tsinghua University Beijing Municipality
1947 (Winner, General Tire and Rubber Company's Fellowship)
1946 (Winner, General Tire and Rubber Company's Fellowship)
1945—1948 Student, University of Notre Dame, Chemistry Department USA, Indiana, Notre Dame (Received Doctorate)
1945 (Winner, General Tire and Rubber Company's Fellowship)
1937 Graduate, Tsinghua University Beijing Municipality


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