Zhang Qinglian: We are always working hard

[Quotes and aphorisms] 2015-10-09 10:08:34 Popular Science in China - Collection of Famous Science and Technology Masters

Looking back on the path I have taken over the years, I don’t think I can talk about any particularly outstanding achievements and contributions. But we are always working hard and even making progress into some new areas, and as long as we enter, we will always gain something. ——Zhang Qinglian, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Zhang Qinglian (1908.7.31-2006.12.14) was born in Changshu, Jiangsu Province, an inorganic chemist, educator, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and served as Fu Jen, Professor at Tsinghua University, Peking University and other universities, and the first chairman of the Chinese Society for Mass Spectrometry. He has been engaged in teaching and scientific research of inorganic chemistry for a long time. He is particularly knowledgeable in isotope chemistry and is the founder and pioneer of stable isotope science in China. He played an important role in the development and production of heavy water and lithium isotopes in China. In his later years, he was engaged in research on determining atomic weight by isotope mass spectrometry. The atomic weight of indium measured in 1991 was 114.818±0.003, which has been adopted as a new international standard. His works include "Research on Heavy Water", "Inorganic Chemistry Series", etc.