AWARDEE OF CHEMISTRY PRIZE

ZHANG CUNHAO

Zhang Cunhao(Cun-Hao Zhang)，born  in 1928, Tianjin, China. B.S. (Chem. Eng.) 1947, Central University,  Nanjing, China. M.S. (Chem. Eng.) 1950, U. Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. Sc. D. (Hon.) 1998, Chinese U Hong Kong. Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1980; Fellow, Third World Academy of Science (TWAS), 1992.
Presently Honorary President, National Natural Science Foundation of China (past president, 1991-1999). Standing Member, CPPCC. Member, CAS Presidium. Honorary Member, CAST. Member, Dissertation Committee under the State Council.  Research Professor, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS.  Parttime Professor, Institute of Chemistry, CAS: Peking University and a number of other top Chinese universities.
In the past half century, Zhang has been working in the field of catalysis, chemical engineering, chemical kinetics, and frontier disciplines including combustion of propellants, chemical lasers, chemistry of excited states.  He developed in the fifties, with his collaborators, high efficiency nitrided iron catalysts for the synthesis of liquid fuels.  In the sixties, he and his collaborators proposed a multi-flame theory to elucidate the burning rate characteristics of solid propellants.  Since the seventies, he was engaged in chemical laser research as well as in laser spectroscopy of excited molecules. In particular, he and his collaborators made significant contributions in double resonance multi-photon ionization spectroscopy, spectroscopy of ultra-short lived molecular species, quantum state specific molecular energy transfer, and novel chemical laser systems.  He was 4 times awarded (in 1956, 1982, 1993 and 1999) the National Natural Science Prize, together with a number of other eminent prizes.  His publication includes over 100 referred papers.