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Biography

Yu Guocong, male, Han nationality, is a native of Taishan County, Guangdong Province. He was born in 1922, graduated from Southwestern Associated University in 1943 and received his master's from the University of Pittsburgh in 1947.

Yu Guocong has long been engaged in the study of distillation theory and technology. He has made several strides forward in the theory and technology of distillation tower simulation and amplification. He put up a more comprehensive theory of distillation procedure for the unstable state and a new strategy of multivariant parameters for batch distillation.

Yu has also made several achievements in the fields of gas-liquid interface and computational transmission. His achievements won him the prize of the National Science Conference, the 2nd grade and the 3rd grade prize for National Science and Technology Progress, the 1st grade and the 2nd grade prize for Science and Technology Progress awarded by the State Education Commission, the He-Liang-He-Li Foundation Prize for Scientific and Technological Research Progress, and the 1st grade prize for National Scientific and Technological Books.

Yu is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a member of the standing committee of the CPPCC.