Cheng Rongshi

Cheng was born in Yixing, Jiangsu, on 18 October 1927.^[2] In 1945, he was admitted to the University of Nanking, where he studied chemistry under Dai Anbang [zh].^[2] After graduating in 1949, he did his postgraduate work at Peking University.^[2]

In 1951, Cheng was dispatched to the Shanghai Institute of Physical Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences.^[1] That same year, he moved to Changchun and worked at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry. In 1983, he joined the faculty of Nanjing University.^[1] In 1995, he became a professor and director of Macromolecule Research Institute of South China University of Technology.^[1]

On 7 February 2021, he died of illness in Guangzhou, Guangdong, aged 93.^[2][3]

• 1991 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)^[2]