China Vitae

Biography

Shen Zhiquan, female, Han nationality, is a native of Shanghai. She graduated from the Chemistry Department of Hujiang University in Shanghai in 1952 and is a macromolecular chemist.

Shen's academic ties are primarily in Zhejiang Province. She was a professor at Zhejiang University and the vice-chair of the Zhejiang Association of Science and Technology. She has conducted research on polymer chemistry and its application basis, mainly on the catalytic polymerization of transient metal and rare earth chromium compounding. In the 1960s, she developed cis-polybutadience in the ternary nickel system and her contributions led to the building of a ten thousand ton rank cis-polybutadience plant in China.

Shen has received recognition for establishing a scientific branch of the catalytic polymerization of rare earth chromium with Chinese characteristics. She later developed and organized research on the catalysis of the polymerization of acetyl hydrocarbon with rare earth chromium compounding and its rubber.

In 1995, she was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.