Yang Guanghua orGuang-Hwa Yang (Chinese:杨光华; 1923–2006), was a Chinese chemist andchemical engineer. He was the President ofChina University of Petroleum, and a pioneer ofChina's oil industry.[1]
Yang was born inLiuyang,Hunan, on 10 April 1923. In 1945, he graduated from the Department of Chemical Engineering ofZhejiang University inHangzhou. He was ateaching assistant in the same department. In 1948, Yang went to study in theUnited States, and obtained hisDoctor of Engineering degree from theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison in 1951.[citation needed]
Yang went back to China in May 1951. Yang was a professor atPeking University andTsinghua University. In 1953, Yang joined to found the Beijing Petroleum College (北京石油学院; predecessor of current China University of Petroleum). In 1956, Yang was avisiting researcher at Moscow Petroleum Institute,USSR. In 1965, Yang was pointed Vice-president of Beijing Petroleum College. After 1969, Yang was Vice-president, later President of East China Petroleum College (华东石油学院). From 1988 to 1992, Yang was the President of China University of Petroleum (CUP), anational key university. Yang died inBeijing on 11 November 2006 at age 83. Yang donated his books and academic collections to the library of CUP.[2]
In 1950s, Yang and Prof. Wu Chi (武迟) co-founded the first educational program of oil andnatural gas engineering/refining in China.
Yang's sonYang Wei, amechanical engineer, served asPresident of Zhejiang University.[3]
Asteroid10410 Yangguanghua, discovered by theBeijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program in 1997, is named in his memory.[1] The officialnaming citation was published by theMinor Planet Center on 26 October 2018 (M.P.C. 112427).[4]
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