Yang Fuyu
Yang Fuyu , a Chinese biochemist, biophysicist, and writer. He is the main founder of biomembrane study in China. He is the current chief of the National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.Life
Yang is a native of Ningbo, Zhejiang Province and was born in Shanghai in 1927. He graduated from the Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University in 1950. Just after his graduation, he worked for the Institute of Experimental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences as an assistant.
In 1956, Yang went to USSR and studied at the Department of Biology, Moscow State University until 1960 when he received a PhD there.
Yang is a long-serving senior scientist at the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also a professor of the institute, a professor of the Graduate School, University of Science and Technology of China and a professor at Wuhan University.Academic positions
Yang's younger brother, the nuclear physicist Fujia Yang, is current Chancellor of the University of Nottingham in Britain.
