Xie Yuyuan

Xie Yuyuan (; April 19, 1924 – March 27, 2021) was a Chinese pharmaceutical chemist. He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Biography Xie was born in Beijing, on April 19, 1924, while his ancestral home was in Suzhou, Jiangsu. In his early years, he studied in the Department of Chemical Engineering of Soochow University. In 1941, when the Imperial Japanese Army occupied the , his father ordered him to drop out of school and stay at home. After the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1945, he was admitted to the Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University. After graduating in 1949, he taught at the university.