China Vitae

Biography

Chen Nanxia, male, Han nationality, is a native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. He was born in 1937, majored in physics at Beijing University and then taught at the Beijing Institute of Iron and Steel Engineering. He got a doctorate in electric engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, and following post-doctoral studies, was an academician of the New York Academy of Sciences from 1980 to 1986.

Returning to China in 1987, he was a professor and director of the Institute of Applied Physics and director of the physics department's academic committee at the Beijing University of Science and Technology. He also served as deputy editor-in-chief of the English-language academic journal "Zhongguo Wuli Kuaibao" (China Physics Bulletin) and was head of an experts group on hi-tech functional materials. He did research on the physics of condensed matter and cooperated in finding an exact solution to the question of lattice specific heat. He is the translator of "Vibration and Wave Physics".

Also, after returning to China, Chen began participation in government and party affairs when he joined the China Association for Promoting Democracy, one of China's eight non-communist parties. He subsequently served as vice-chairman of the 8th, 9th, and 10th China Association for Promoting Democracy Central Committees. In the CPPCC, he was a member of two national committees and a member of the standing committee of the 8th CPPCC National Committee. And in the NPC, he was a member of the standing committee of the 9th NPC.