Prominent Chinese Scientist DiesLu Jiaxi, a prominent Chinese scientist, educationist and social activist, died of illness Monday in Fuzhou City, the capital of Fujian Province, east China. He was 86.Lu was vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the Eighth National People's Congress (NPC), and vice-chairman of the National Committee of the current Ninth Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and had been chairman of the China Peasants and Workers Democratic Party. Lu was born in Xiamen, Fujian, on October 26, 1915. He became a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 1955. He once served as president of the CAS. He was also fellow of the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Letters, fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences, and fellow of the Belgian Royal Society of Sciences. He had won a good number of international and national science awards. |
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