Chen Nengkuan

Chen Nengkuan (; 28 April 1923 – 27 May 2016), or N. K. Chen, was a Chinese metallurgist and material scientist. He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and one of the 23 founding fathers of China's Two Bombs, One Satellite .

Biography Chen was born in Cili County, Hunan.

He graduated from the mining and metallurgy department of National Tangshan Jiaotong University (now Southwest Jiaotong University) in 1946. He was admitted to a self-financed study abroad program sponsored by the government and then traveled to the United States for graduate studies in 1947. He received a master's degree in 1948 and a Doctor of Philosophy in metallurgy from Yale University in 1950. He worked for Johns Hopkins University and Westinghouse Electric as a researcher after his graduation.