Yang Shilin

Yang Shilin

Yang Shilin, born in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, is an organic chemist, polymer chemist and chemical educator. He has been engaged in chemical education and scientific research for more than 50 years and has trained a large number of chemical talents for China. He has high attainments in organic synthesis, cationic polymerization and coordination polymerization, and pays attention to the research of Applied Chemistry. The developed catalytic activator, drag reducer and pour point depressant for crude oil transportation are of great economic significance. It has made a new contribution in the research of medical polymer and organic polymer photoconductive materials.

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Born on October 18, 1919 in Luzhi Town, Wu County, Jiangsu Province (now Suzhou, Jiangsu).

From September 1936 to August 1937, he was an intern in Institute of Applied Chemistry, Nankai University. From September 1937 to August 1941, he studied in the Department of chemistry, Zhejiang University.

From September 1941 to 1991, he successively held the posts of teacher, associate professor, Professor, deputy director of Department of chemical engineering, director of Department of chemistry, director of scientific research department, provost, vice president, President, consultant and director of Academic Committee of Zhejiang University.

From 1948 to 1950, he was sent to the Department of organic chemistry of Copenhagen Polytechnic University.

He was promoted to Professor in 1957 and has been the head of the Department of chemistry since 1958.

From 1963 to 1992, he was vice chairman of Zhejiang Association for science and technology and President of Zhejiang Chemical Society.

From 1978 to 1986, he was elected to the 20th and 21st board of directors of the Chinese chemical society.

From 1984 to 1988, he was a member of the Organic Chemistry Committee of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

In 1982, he was the editorial board member of Journal of chemistry and Journal of polymer, and the president of Zhejiang University.

Life

juvenile

Yang Shilin was born on October 18, 1919 in Wu County, Jiangsu Province. From the age of 5, he studied in Fuli primary school in Wuxian county with excellent academic performance. Later, he graduated from the Experimental Primary School of Suzhou middle school and was admitted to the junior middle school of Suzhou middle school with excellent results. After the January 28 Incident in 1932, the Japanese bombed Suzhou and were forced to suspend school for half a year. After graduating from Suzhou high school chemical engineering in 1936, he worked as an intern in Applied Chemistry Research Institute of Nankai University. He had a deep understanding of chemistry. Since then, he had an indissoluble bond with chemistry. In 1937, he was admitted to Zhejiang University as a public student. Soon after the Anti Japanese war broke out, Zhejiang was occupied. Yang Shilin moved with Zhejiang University to Tianmu Mountain, and then to Yishan, Guangxi, until Zunyi, Guizhou. He persisted in studying under extremely difficult circumstances and actively participated in Anti Japanese activities.

Return home

In 1948, Yang Shilin was admitted to the Department of organic chemistry, Copenhagen Polytechnic University, Denmark, and was sent to study until the end of 1950. At this time, the people's Republic of China was founded. Yang Shilin resolutely returned to his liberated motherland and dedicated his wisdom and knowledge to the cause of socialist construction of the motherland. He was an associate professor of Zhejiang University in 1951 and a later professor. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1952.

Post

In the early 1950s, Yang Shilin was appointed deputy director of the Department of chemical engineering, director of the Department of chemistry, director of the scientific research department, Dean of education, vice president, President, school consultant, and director of the academic committee of Zhejiang University. He worked hard for the development of Zhejiang University. He adheres to the good school spirit of "seeking truth" advocated by president Zhu Kezhen, edifies young students and cultivates a large number of senior professionals for the country. He has also held various academic and social positions. He was a member of the organic chemistry review group of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and vice chairman of the fifth Zhejiang Provincial Political Consultative Conference. At present, he is vice chairman of Zhejiang Association for science and technology, President of Zhejiang Chemical Society, member of national engineering organic chemistry teaching guidance group, consultant of National Applied Chemistry Teaching Guidance Group, editorial board member of Chemical Journal of colleges and universities, Journal of polymer, consultant of polymer materials science and engineering and journal of functional polymer.

Yang Shilin, the old president, was loved by his classmates and teachers during his term of office. The students of Zhejiang University commented on him: "in the history of polymer teaching and research of Zhejiang University and even the whole China, there is such an outstanding person - he personally stepped out of the grand route of" westward migration "of the old Zhejiang University. He witnessed the founding of the motto of" seeking truth "and personally practiced it. He carefully cultivated generations and generations of talents A generation of people from Zhejiang University. He is the former president of Zhejiang University, China's famous polymer educator, founder of Zhejiang University polymer; at the same time, he is an extraordinary and highly respected scholar! He is Professor Yang Shilin

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academic exchange

Since the reform and opening up, we have actively carried out academic exchanges with foreign countries. In 1978, we took part in a delegation organized by the Chinese Academy of Sciences to study higher education and scientific research in Japan. In 1981, we led a delegation to Australia to study higher education. In 1983, we led a delegation to the West Berlin University of technology to study. In 1984, at the invitation of the American Academy of Sciences, we went to New York Polytechnic University and Akron university to give lectures After that, he went to the United States, Japan and other countries to investigate and make academic reports.

educational work

Before 1961, Professor Yang Shilin mainly taught organic chemistry and compiled the first batch of engineering organic chemistry textbooks in China. Later, he turned to polymer chemistry, offering polymer chemistry, stereochemistry, selected theory of Polymer Chemistry (postgraduate course) and other courses. His educational thought is mainly the materialist thought that practice is the only standard to test truth. He thinks that there is only one real theory, that is, to truly reflect the essence of objective things, which is also what people strive for, but in chemistry, the existing theories do not fully reflect the essential characteristics of objective things, so he repeatedly stressed that learning theory must not copy the rigid set, but based on experimental facts. When he was teaching theoretical problems, he always explained them in connection with the experimental facts, and never talked about them empty. In the teaching method, it adopts the method of combining theory with practice and gradually deepening. For example, when teaching a certain class of compounds, first let the students have a general understanding of this class of compounds, then introduce their synthesis methods, link up various related chemical reactions, and then explain the relationship between their structure and properties, and relate to the practical application of this class of compounds. His teaching is characterized by concise content, clear organization, vivid language and practical connection. People who have heard Yang Shilin's lectures all have this feeling, that is, after two classes, Yang Shilin doesn't seem to have much to talk about, but when he looks at the handouts and books, he is startled that there are too many contents. It can be seen that the art taught by Yang Shilin is very high. Therefore, Yang Shilin has always enjoyed a high reputation in the main courses of the school.

In 1960, Yang Shilin began to recruit postgraduates. In 1984, he was a doctoral supervisor. He paid attention to the cultivation of their self-study ability and independent working ability. He regularly organized seminars. The postgraduates reported the progress of their work and learned from literature reading to inspire their new ideas. His 18 master's and 6 doctoral students have played a key role, and some have grown into academic leaders.

Discipline development

Since the 1980s, functional polymers have flourished on the basis of polymer synthesis, which has become a hot research topic all over the world, especially from the height of molecular design to guide the synthesis of functional polymers, in order to obtain the desired performance, which has become a hot front topic in chemistry and physics, and also a subject to be solved in the interdisciplinary field of chemistry and physics. Yang Shilin has been paying close attention to this development trend, focusing on the research and development of photoconductive materials, which are the key materials for photocopiers, high-speed computers and solar cells. In 1986, he resolutely organized the forces in polymer chemistry, polymer physics, solid-state physics, electronics, optics, etc., and carried out the Research on organic polymer photoconductive materials. Yang Shilin and his research group have done a lot of work in the development of organic polymer photoconductive materials and photoconductive mechanism, and made a breakthrough. In 1988, on the basis of a large number of experimental facts of the scientific research group, Yang Shilin proposed for the first time at the International Symposium on copying technology held in Tokyo, Japan that the blending and compounding technology of phthalocyanine compounds is one of the effective ways to improve the photoconductivity of phthalocyanine compounds, which has attracted the attention of scholars at home and abroad. Scholars from nine countries have written for papers. Scholars at home and abroad think that the photoconductivity mechanism of organic solids is much more complex than that of inorganic solids, but so far there is no unified theoretical model, which is of great interest to scholars all over the world, but the progress is slow. Dare to carry out international competition and become one of the most advanced in the world? It has become an urgent problem for Yang Shilin and his research group. Their working conditions are worse than those of foreign countries, and their manpower, financial resources and equipment are far behind those of foreign countries. However, they adopted the existing modern physical analysis equipment of our university, and through repeated experimental research, they gave full play to the advantages of interdisciplinary. For the first time, they put forward the theoretical model that "the photoelectron process in phthalocyanine solid is an incomplete electron transfer process". At the same time, it has achieved gratifying results in the practical application. So it has reached the international advanced level in some fields of organic photoconductive materials.

Yang Shilin is upright, sincere, neither fame nor profit. He has worked hard in teaching and scientific research for most of his life. His strict scientific attitude enjoys a high reputation in the domestic chemical industry. He does not strive for fame and profit, does not boast about his achievements, and opposes the bad style of exaggeration. When interviewed by reporters, he opposes

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