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Chien Shih Liang

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Native name
  
錢思亮

Role
  
Chemist

Occupation
  
Chemist and educator

Died
  
1983, Taipei, Taiwan

Parent(s)
  
Chien Hong-ye (father)

Grandchildren
  
Carl Chien

Name
  
Chien Shih-Liang


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Born
  
1908
Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Children
  
Frederick Chien, Shu Chien, Robert Chien

Alma mater
  
Tianjin Nankai High School, Tsinghua University, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Chien Shih-Liang aka S. L. Chien (Chinese: 錢思亮; 1908-1983), was a notable Chinese chemist and educator.

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Biography

Chien was from Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Chien graduated from the prestigious Tianjin Nankai High School. Chien matriculated at Tsinghua University Department of Chemistry in 1927. He won the Boxer Indemnity Scholarship Program in 1931 and went to the United States together with Ta-You Wu. Chien continued his study in chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) where he obtained M.Sc. in 1932 and Ph.D. in 1934.

Chien went back to China after obtaining PhD and joined the Peking University Department of Chemistry. Chien was a professor and the head of the department.

In 1949, Chien went to Taipei, and was recruited professor of chemistry and the provost of the National Taiwan University, by its then-president Fu Sinian. From 1951 till 1970, Chien was the President of the National Taiwan University.

In 1964, Chien was elected Academician of the Academia Sinica division of physical and mathematical sciences. From 1970 to 1983, Chien served the President of Academia Sinica. In 1983, Chien received honorary doctoral degree from his alma mater UIUC.

From 1971 to 1981, Chien also served the director of the Atomic Energy Council of the Executive Yuan.

Family

Chien's father Chien Hong-ye (錢鴻業) was a Chief Justice in the Supreme Court of the Republic of China, and was assassinated in Shanghai in 1940. Chien had three sons. The eldest, Robert Chien (錢純) and youngest, Fredrick Chien, became politicians. His second son Shu Chien is a biologist and engineer. A grandson, Carl Chien, is a businessman.

References

Chien Shih-Liang Wikipedia