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Revision History:

Biography Revised: 5/25/2004
Career Data Updated: 3/22/2007

PHOTO: Chen Nanxian
Chen Nanxian 陈难先
Vice Chairman of CPPCC Beijing Municipal Committee, Member of the 10th NPC Standing Committee, Vice-Chairman of the 11th Central Committee of the China Association for Promoting Democracy
Born: 1937

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.

Career Data

2003— Vice-Chairman, 10th Education, Science, Culture and Health Committee of the NPC
2002— Chairman, China Association for Promoting Democracy, Municipal Committee Beijing Municipality
2002— Vice-Chairman, 11th China Association for Promoting Democracy, Central Committee
2000— Professor, Tsinghua University, Physics Department Beijing Municipality
1998—2003 Member, 9th Standing Committee of the NPC
1997—2002 Vice-Chairman, 10th China Association for Promoting Democracy, Central Committee
1994—2000 Professor, Beijing University of Science and Technology Beijing Municipality
1994—2000 Vice-President, Beijing University of Science and Technology Beijing Municipality
1993—1998 Member, 8th CPPCC, National Committee, Standing Committee
1992—1997 Member, 9th China Association for Promoting Democracy, Central Committee
1988—1993 Member, 7th CPPCC, National Committee, Standing Committee
1988— Vice-Chairman, 8th China Association for Promoting Democracy, Central Committee
1987 Joined, China Association for Promoting Democracy (CAPD)
Deputy Editor-in-Chief, China Physics Bulletin
Director, Beijing University of Science and Technology, Physics Department, Academic Committee Beijing Municipality
Director, Institute of Applied Physics
1987—???? Professor, Institute of Applied Physics
1986 Academician, New York Academy of Sciences
1983—1988 Member, 6th CPPCC, National Committee
1980 Graduate, University of Pennsylvania USA, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (Received Doctorate in Electrical Engineering)
Professor, Beijing Institute of Iron and Steel Engineering Beijing Municipality
Lecturer, Beijing Institute of Iron and Steel Engineering Beijing Municipality
1962 Graduate, Beijing University, Physics Department Beijing Municipality


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