Qu Bochuan (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Qu Bochuan (November 16, 1909 - February 18, 1997), was a scholar and educator in China, who was the principal founder of the Dalian University of Technology. In 1928, he went to Nanjing University for his bachelor degree of chemistry. In 1934, he went to Germany and later got his doctoral degree from the Dresden University of Technology, majoring in Chemical Engineering. Then he came back to China in 1938, exploring a way to improve the Chinese technical and educational development. Introduced by Zhou Enlai, he went to Yan'an, Later the same year, he participated in the foundation of the Yan'an Institute of Natural Science, directly reported to Mao Zedong on this project, and held the position of the academic dean of the Institute. From 1938 to 1948, he served as a variety of technical development positions assigned by the central government, e.g., the director of the experimental institute of the Shanxi-Chaha'er-Hebei Military Are