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Biography

Zhan Wenlong, male, Han nationality, is a native of Xiamen, Fujian province. He was born in 1955, and graduated from Lanzhou University. He is a nuclear physicist and academician.

His research includes heavy ion physics and the mega-science project of accelerators in the range from low to relative energy. He merged the research of incomplete deep inelastic scattering, new isotopes synthesis, new isotopes mass measurement, the TOF prototype of RHIC-PHENIX, and radioactive ion beam separators. He leads the national mega-science project entitled "Cooling Storage Ring Bases on a Heavy Ion Research Facility in Lanzhou".

He was elected as vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2008, and he also served as an alternate member of the 17th CPC Central Committee in 2008.