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Tang Hongxiao
Tang Hongxiao
汤鸿霄
Born	4 October 1931; Xushui County, Hebei, China
Died	16 December 2022 (aged 91); Beijing, China
Alma mater	Harbin Institute of Technology
	Scientific career
Fields	Environmental engineering; Environmental water quality
Institutions	Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	汤鸿霄
Traditional Chinese	湯鴻宵
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Tāng Hóngxiāo

Tang Hongxiao (Chinese: 汤鸿霄; 4 October 1931 – 16 December 2022) was a Chinese engineer who was a professor at the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.^[1]

Biography

Tang was born in Xushui County (now Xushui District of Baoding), Hebei, on 4 October 1931.^[2] In 1950, he was admitted to Harbin Institute of Technology.^[3] He studied at the Department of Geology at the beginning, but switched to the Department of Mining (later reshuffled as Department of Civil Engineering) half a year later. After graduating in 1958, he stayed and taught there.

Tang moved to the Institute of Environmental Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences as an associate research fellow in 1977.^[3] In 1984, he became a visiting scholar at the Swiss Institute of Water Resources and Water Pollution Control (now EAWAG), where he studied under Professor W. Stam. Tang returned to China in 1985 and that same year became director of the Water Pollution Chemistry Research Office, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences.^[2]

On 16 December 2022, he died from an illness in Beijing, at the age of 91.^[2]

Honours and awards

1987 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class)
1995 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)^[4]
1999 Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation
2002 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class) for the Principles of Environmental Interface Chemistry and Control Technology for Persistent Pollutants
2004 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class) for the Inorganic Polymer Flocculant and High Efficiency Flocculation Technology

References

^ 汤鸿霄院士. cas.cn (in Chinese). 12 December 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c Yue Huairang (岳怀让) (17 December 2022). 环境工程学家汤鸿霄逝世，共和国今年已痛别41位两院院士. thepaper (in Chinese). Retrieved 17 December 2022.
^ ^a ^b 汤鸿霄：把一生的爱献给科学和环保事业. sciencenet.cn (in Chinese). 24 December 2014. Retrieved 17 December 2022.
^ 汤鸿霄. cae.cn (in Chinese). 5 December 2008. Retrieved 17 December 2022.