Wen Shengchang

Wen Shengchang (1 November 1921 – 20 March 2022) was a Chinese oceanographer and academic who was a professor at the Ocean University of China, a former president of Shandong Institute of Oceanology, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was a member of the Jiusan Society and the Chinese Communist Party.

Biography Wen was born in the town of in Guangshan County, Henan, on 1 November 1921. He finished his elementary education in Huangchuan Middle School and secondary in Yichang High School and Hubei United High School. In 1940, he entered Leshan Central Technical College and soon was admitted to the Department of Machinery, Wuhan University in Leshan, Sichuan. He joined the Jiusan Society in March 1956 and the Chinese Communist Party in February 1983. He was promoted to be president of Shandong Institute of Oceanology (later reshuffled as the Ocean University of China) in 1984, concurrently serving as director of the Institute of Physical Oceanography.

Honours and awards 1985 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class) 1993 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) 1997 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Third Class) 1999 Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation