Ji Liangnian

Ji Liangnian (; 20 April 1934 – 2 April 2024) was a Chinese chemist who was a professor at Sun Yat-sen University, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Biography Ji was born in Shanghai, on 20 April 1934, to Ji Zhuqing , a staff member of The Times in Shanghai. He was the youngest of 6 children. In July 1937, the Lugou Bridge Incident broke out, and the following month, the Imperial Japanese Army occupied Shanghai, causing his father to lose his job and the family's life to become difficult. In 1940, by the age of 6, his mother died of tuberculosis; three years later, his father also died of tuberculosis.

In 1948, he began working as an apprentice at a leather goods workshop to make a living. After the liberation of Shanghai in May 1949, he completed middle and high school courses with a work-study program. In 1952, he enrolled at Shandong University, where he majored in the Department of Chemistry. In November 1975, he was recruited as a lecturer at Sun Yat-sen University, where he was promoted to full professor in 1986 and dean of the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering in 1994. In 1982, he became a visiting scholar at Northwestern University in the United States.

Honours and awards 1989 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2003 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)