Shen (1965438+September 7, 2006—2065438+July 4, 2007), male, Han nationality, native of Jilin City, Jilin Province, inorganic chemist and chemical educator, member of China Association for the Promotion of Democracy, academician of China Academy of Sciences, professor of Nankai University.

1980 was elected member of Chemistry Department of China Academy of Sciences. 20/kloc-0 died on July 4th, 7, at the age of 10 1.

Professor Shen has been a basic course of inorganic chemistry for more than 40 years and compiled many chemical monographs. Long-term work in inorganic synthesis and metal hydride chemistry laid the foundation for the establishment of the Institute of New Energy Materials Chemistry of Nankai University and the Institute of Applied Chemistry of the Department of Chemistry of Nankai University.

Chinese name: Shen.

Nationality: China.

Ethnic group: Han nationality

Place of birth: Jilin City, Jilin Province

Date of birth:1965438+September 7, 2006.

Date of death: 2065438+July 4, 2007

Occupation: educational and scientific research worker

Graduate school: Southwest United University

Main achievements: 1980 was elected as a member of the Chemistry Department of China Academy of Sciences.

Masterpiece: Basic Inorganic Chemistry, My Educational Life —— Self-report of Shen Bainian.

Gender: male

Party: Chinese producer.

The life of the character

1965438+On September 7, 2006, he was born in a poor family in Jilin City, Jilin Province. In order to make a living, my father took his family north and prepared to suffer. He hopes that his son can be admitted to Pan Wen and become a learned man, so that he can barely afford to go to middle school.

From 65438 to 0935, Shen graduated from Tianjin Nankai Middle School. At this time, China is struggling in the whirlpool of internal and external troubles. This 19-year-old young man, influenced by patriotic education in Nankai Middle School, is determined to receive higher education in order to better serve the motherland. He was admitted to the Department of Chemical Engineering of Nankai University. Because of excellent grades, I was exempted from the annual accommodation fee in 90 yuan, and the living expenses were solved by helping Nankai Middle School teachers to correct their homework. After the first semester, I won a scholarship of 300 silver dollars a year, which temporarily solved the financial difficulties of studying.

1937, the Japanese invaders launched the war of aggression against China, Tianjin fell, the campus of Nankai University was destroyed by the brutal bombing of the Japanese army, the school was ordered to move inward, and the scholarship came to an end. Shen's college career had to be temporarily suspended.

Suffering from national ruin, academic ruin and dropping out of school, Shen deeply felt that "every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world" and resolutely joined the army and went south to join the teaching corps of the Central Military Academy of the Nanjing Kuomintang government, ready to receive anti-chemical training. But due to the Japanese attack on Shanghai, Songhu was in a hurry. After he hastily received emergency combat training, he was ordered to go to the front line in Shanghai to participate in the battle in the front line in Songjiang. Soon after, because the Japanese army landed in Hangzhou Bay, the Kuomintang army was completely defeated. He witnessed the tragic images of the loss of life and land caused by government corruption, branded a deep hatred for the Japanese aggressor troops in his heart, and felt that the future of the individual and the country was gloomy and depressed. After taking care of a group of patients and retiring to Nanjing, he applied to leave the army. In just over four months, Shen changed from a high-spirited young student to a lonely flood whose spirit was on the verge of collapse, and experienced a period of depression in his life.

He made a detour to Changsha to find Mr. Yang Shixian, the head of the chemistry department of the temporary university at that time. Since the Department of Chemical Engineering of Nankai University has moved to Chongqing, he transferred to the Department of Chemistry to continue his university studies. Due to the middle class and physical and mental fatigue, he failed in many courses and was announced to drop out of school. At this time, the temporary university was ordered to move to Kunming to form Southwest United University. Huang Yusheng, Secretary General of Nankai University, led some teachers and students to form a "Temporary University Hunan-Guizhou-Yunnan Tour Group" to hike in Yunnan. Agree and fund Shen to come to Kunming with this tour group. In 63 days, they walked 1600 kilometers, which gave him the opportunity to witness the beauty of mountains and rivers and the poverty and backwardness of the people in the three provinces. His thoughts were strongly shocked and enlightened again, and a sense of mission was awakened in his heart. After arriving in Kunming, the head of the Department of Chemistry of The National SouthWest Associated University agreed to Shen's reinstatement. The suffering motherland and enthusiastic teachers made the young man stand tall and have a brand-new mental outlook. It took him two years to complete his studies for three years with good results, and he graduated from the Chemistry Department of The National SouthWest Associated University in Kunming in the summer of 1940.

1940 ——1941year, assistant to the oil research office of the aviation commission.

194 1— 1944 served as the technical officer of Lanzhou Science and Education Center and the board of directors of China Film Gengkuan.

1944 ——1945 Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, Huazhong University.

1945 ——1946 used to be a chemistry teacher in Kunming Tian Xiang Middle School.

After graduating from college, I worked as an assistant in the oil research office of the Aviation Committee. This research room is a newly-built military department, and all the staff are required to join the Kuomintang collectively. He flatly refused the leader's instructions and left his job after less than a year. After that, he drifted in Sichuan, Gansu, Yunnan and other places and experienced a turbulent life, but he never left the education circle. Until War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory, Huang Yusheng and Qiu Zongyue introduced him to the Department of Chemistry of Nankai University, and participated in the demobilization and school-building work from Kunming to Tianjin. 1947 returned to Tianjin and began his teaching career at Nankai University.

Soon, Tianjin and the whole country were liberated, and Shen experienced the first golden age in his life. Established the teaching and research section of inorganic chemistry in the Department of Chemistry, and served as the director. A scientific research group was established and began to engage in scientific research on inorganic synthesis, laying a foundation for study and career.

1946 to 1959 as a teacher, lecturer and associate professor in the chemistry department of Nankai university, 1952 as the first director of the inorganic chemistry teaching and research department.

1959 ——1978 Associate Professor, Professor and Head of the Department of Chemistry, Shanxi University.

1959, he volunteered to help build Shanxi University, and passionately wanted to draw the most beautiful pictures on white paper. He didn't expect that his ambition was not allowed by the growing left-leaning line at that time.

1964 was elected as a deputy to the Third National People's Congress. His efforts to train high-quality teachers were criticized as "fighting for youth with the party" in 1964 and upgraded to "Shenjiacun anti-party group" in the Cultural Revolution. He was repeatedly pulled off the platform, his research room was demolished, and his academic and social activities were restricted. What he can do is to do translation behind closed doors, travel around Shanxi with an "open school", conduct a general survey of humic acid resources in weathered coal, and draw a distribution map. It was this humble job that showed the unique professionalism and persistent pursuit of a generation of intellectuals in China. It also made 1977 visit to Taiwan very sad, and made 1978 Shen transferred back to Nankai University for the second time. This is the beginning of an important period in the history of China. Shen won another golden age before his old age came. Shen himself summed up his experience as a formula: career achievement = education+diligence+opportunity+dedication. He believes that diligence is the most important, positive and effective factor for the success of his career, so he makes full use of hard-won conditions and opportunities, works hard day and night, publishes many works and translations, publishes more than 65,438 academic papers, and holds many technical patents.

1979, was awarded as a model worker in Tianjin.

1980 was elected member of Chemistry Department of China Academy of Sciences.

He died at the age of 20 10 1 in Tianjin at 0: 42 on July 4, 1965. On July 8th, at 6:5438+00 am, the farewell ceremony was held in Yuan Xian Hall of Tianjin No.1 Funeral Home (Beicang).

Major achievements

achievements in scientific research

Shen has been devoted to the teaching and scientific research of inorganic chemistry for a long time. Several workshops were held for inorganic chemistry teachers at different levels. Many monographs and textbooks on inorganic chemistry have been written, translated and published. It has contributed to the development of inorganic chemistry education in China. He has long been engaged in the research of metal hydride chemistry. A series of ionic metal hydrides, including complex hydrides of boron and aluminum, were synthesized by a unique method in China, and three main hydrogen storage alloys were synthesized and studied by chemical methods. Based on the research of hydrogen storage alloys, nickel/metal hydride reversible batteries have been developed, and new achievements have been made.

Inorganic chemistry teaching

Shen's greatest contribution is in the teaching of inorganic chemistry. He is one of the chemists who have taught the basic course of inorganic chemistry for the longest time. He is good at summing up teaching experience, absorbing new achievements in the development of inorganic chemistry, constantly updating and enriching teaching contents, writing, translating and publishing more than 60 volumes of inorganic chemistry textbooks and monographs,150,000 words, which has contributed to the construction of teaching materials. As soon as the "Cultural Revolution" ended, he immediately organized his own strength, compiled and published a number of applicable textbooks, which he thought was an urgent task to shorten the gap between China and the world in science and technology. He is one of the finalizers of the textbook Inorganic Chemistry and co-edited Basic Inorganic Chemistry with Yin Jingzhi. These two textbooks are still widely used as teaching materials or teaching reference books. Basic Inorganic Chemistry 1985 was published in Uyghur, and the book won the first prize of excellent teaching materials in colleges and universities awarded by 1988 State Education Commission.

Shen knows that inorganic chemistry has gradually changed its face since the 1960s. Transition element chemistry has become the mainstream of inorganic chemistry, and the chemistry of main group elements (such as boron) has also taken on a new look. Inorganic chemistry can no longer be based on Dalton's atomism, and Mendeleev's periodic law can no longer play an important role in inorganic chemistry textbooks. Students must be accustomed to finding the regularity of inorganic chemistry from the electronic shell structure and bonding relationship of atoms, and at the same time pay full attention to the regularity and diversity of valence state change and reaction chemistry. He tried to update his knowledge first, so that his textbooks could be widely used and keep up with the development of the subject. Taking borane chemistry as an example, he expounded his idea of updating inorganic chemistry textbooks. This new branch of chemistry was in a chaotic state for a long time before it was found that boron was easy to form electron-deficient compounds and borane was in a novel bonding mode. In vivid language, he called the "three-centered double electron (symbol 3c2e) bond" in borane a "three-centered double meaning" bond.

At the same time, Shen organized a nationwide translation team and translated and published three representative excellent British and American textbooks with high speed and high quality. Among them, Inorganic Chemistry by E.M. Purcell is currently recognized as one of the classic works of inorganic chemistry, which is famous for its high theoretical level. In this way, in a relatively short period of time, Shen compiled a batch of teaching materials with relatively new contents and characteristics through self-editing and self-translation, which met the needs of teaching at different levels.

With teaching materials, the key lies in the teacher. 1980 presided over a one-year national seminar for inorganic chemistry lecturers and offered courses related to modern inorganic chemistry. 120 Most students become the backbone of teaching and are active on the platform of colleges and universities. In Taiyuan, Harbin, Lanzhou, Jinhua, Kunming, Qingdao and other places, he presided over or participated in mid-term or short-term seminars at different levels (sometimes including middle school chemistry teachers), with dozens of participants, as many as 200. In the Department of Chemistry of Nankai University, he aimed to build a key discipline of inorganic chemistry, trained discipline leaders in a planned way, and built an echelon of teachers. He emphasized that the growth of teachers should be realized and contributed by their own efforts. He arranged to carry out scientific research in inorganic synthesis, coordination chemistry and bio-inorganic chemistry, and set up a set of high-quality postgraduate degree courses, which created good conditions and environment for teachers' growth. His model of training teachers won the 1989 Excellent Teaching Achievement Award. Shen is also very concerned about the development of solid chemistry teaching. He promoted the establishment of the discipline group of inorganic synthesis and solid chemistry in chinese chemical society, presided over the translation of A.R. West's representative monograph "Solid Chemistry and Its Application", initiated and held a national seminar on solid chemistry, and trained a group of teachers who were qualified for solid chemistry teaching.

Shen has always focused on the whole country, focusing on the professional construction and new development of inorganic chemistry, doing a good job in the construction of teaching materials and teachers, and constantly exploring and improving all aspects of inorganic chemistry teaching through his own teaching practice and the construction of the inorganic chemistry teaching and research department of Nankai University. He has made outstanding contributions to the teaching of inorganic chemistry in China.

Hydride research

Shen took the lead in carrying out scientific research on metal hydride in China, and his achievements were highly valued and praised by colleagues at home and abroad. Some achievements have become the basis of 863 high technology, and have been developed and applied. This research has a preliminary foundation since 1957, which was carried out in the 1980s and has formed a system. He synthesized and studied a series of ionic metal hydrides, including complex hydrides of boron and aluminum. Three main hydrogen storage alloys were synthesized and studied, and the synthesis and structure of several amorphous hydrogen storage alloys were preliminarily studied. In the synthesis of ionic metal hydride, he creatively used cheap metal sodium as reducing agent to form sodium hydride dispersed with metal chloride as inert salt, and then obtained new hydride through negative hydrogen ion exchange. This synthetic route avoids the use of expensive lithium metal and has low hydrogenation temperature. Later, he improved the synthesis method with condensed aromatic hydrocarbons and titanium tetrachloride as the catalytic system, and synthesized a series of composite hydrides at a lower temperature. Many of them are important synthetic reagents and high-energy fuels, and they are basic research with good application prospects.

Shen believes that hydrogen energy will play an important role in the future energy composition. Hydrogen storage alloys are often indispensable in the development and utilization of hydrogen energy. He synthesized nickel-based and iron-based hydrogen storage alloys by precipitation reduction method, and magnesium-based hydrogen storage alloys by displacement diffusion method, which made the chemical synthesis method of hydrogen storage alloys systematic, and the products obtained were often more uniform, easier to activate or more active than those obtained by metallurgical method. At the 5th World Hydrogen Energy Conference held in Toronto, Canada from 65438 to 0984, his work was widely concerned and highly praised, and his article "Chemical Synthesis and Properties of Hydrogen Storage Alloys" was rated as an excellent paper. His research results of nickel-based hydrogen storage alloy laid the foundation for an 863 high-tech project. A high-performance Ni-MH battery was successfully developed and passed the appraisal, which became the first project in the national 863 high-tech plan. On this basis, the Institute of New Energy Materials Chemistry of Nankai University and Li Sen High-tech Industrial Company were established. He also promoted the establishment of the Institute of Applied Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry of Nankai University. Shen often said that scientific research should not be satisfied with publishing papers and obtaining laboratory technical achievements, but should be plunged into the end and transformed into productivity. His own scientific research work did just that and achieved fruitful results.

In addition to the research on metal hydride, the research on macrocyclic coordination chemistry and bioinorganic chemistry promoted by him has formed research characteristics, achieved many achievements and attracted the attention of peers. In addition, under his concern, the work of metal vapor synthesis and single crystal culture has also been carried out initially.

Honor recognition

With more than 70 volumes and 40 million words, Shen became the most prolific chemist in China. He is a national advanced individual who cares about the next generation. In 2006, he was elected as one of the top ten educational talents in China. In 2008, he was elected as the news person of the year in China Education.

Main thesis

Shen ... General chemistry. Beijing: Higher Education Press, 1958.

2. Shen. A concise course of inorganic chemistry. Beijing: Higher Education Press, 1960.

Yin Jingzhi, Shen. A concise course of inorganic chemistry. Beijing: Higher Education Press, 1964.

Yin Jingzhi, Shen. Basic inorganic chemistry. Beijing: Higher Education Press, 1980.

5. Shen, man. Inorganic chemistry series of hydrogen. Volume one. Beijing: Science Press, 1984.

Yin Jingzhi, Shen. Basic Inorganic Chemistry (Uyghur Edition). Urumqi: Xinjiang Science and Technology Press, 1985.

7. Zhu Shengyue, Zhou Yongjia, Shen. A concise course in coordination chemistry. Tianjin: Tianjin Science and Technology Press, 1990.

Shen Hezeng. Hydrogen and hydrogen energy. Beijing: Science Press, 1988.

9. Shen, Wang, Song Deying, et al. Study on Chemical Synthesis and Hydrogen Absorption Properties of LaNi5. Journal of University Chemistry, 1980,1(2):109-12.

10, Shen, Zhou, Wang, et al., "Study on La-Ni Hydrogen Absorbing Compounds (Ⅲ)". Rare earth,1980,3,17-21.

1 1, Shen,, et al., "Study on new synthesis methods of hydrogen storage materials (I)". Journal of University Chemistry,1982,3 (4): 580-582.

12, Shen, Wang, Song Deying, et al., "Preparation of TiFe from ilmenite and Study on its Properties". Journal of University Chemistry,1983,4 (1):112-14.

13, Shen, Wang, Zhou, et al. "Study on chemical synthesis" FeTi intermetallic compounds and cathodic hydrogen storage. Journal of University Chemistry,1983,4 (6): 673-679.

14, Shen, Wang, Shi. "Proceedings of the 5th World Hydrogen Energy Conference". 36860.88868888666

15, Shen, Shi, Che, et al., "Study on Synthesis of Sodium Hydroxide Dispersed by Inert Salts". Chemical bulletin, 1985 (7): 24-25.

16, Shen, Shi, Chen, et al., "Study on Synthesis Method of Calcium in aluminum hydride". Chemical bulletin, 1986 (9): 3 1.

17, Shen, Shi, Wang Da et al., "Preparation and Properties of Non-etherified aluminum hydride". Inorganic Chemistry,1986,2 (3):105-107.

18, Shen, Zhou Yongqi, Hao Cunsheng, et al., "Calculation of X-ray diffraction spectrum of NdFeB ternary system ideal powder". Inorganic Chemistry,1987,3 (3):122-125.

19, Shen, Zhou Yongqi, Chen Jingyuan, et al., "Study on the Structure of 2: 17 Rare Earth-Diamond Compounds". Journal of Nankai University,1988:102-106.

20. Shen. "International Conference on Metal Hydrogen Systems", Canadian Edition. 1990.9。

2 1, Shen, Shi, Zhang Jia. "New synthetic method of lithium aluminum hydride". China patent number 87 10 196, 1987.

22. Shen, car, clock. "New synthetic method of sodium aluminum hydride". China patent number 89 108 196, 1989.

23. Shen, car, clock. "A new synthesis method of magnesium in aluminum hydride". China patent number 89 108 189, 1989.

24. Shen, Ji Shunong, Shen Xingyuan. Report on Education Investigation in Hainan Island 55438+0985 Comprehensive Investigation Report of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Science and Technology Group in Hainan.

25. Shen. Views on "where is the breakthrough to release the vitality of colleges and universities" People's Daily internal reference, 1983, 20 1.

26, Shen, "My opinion on the structural reform of college teachers". Nankai education series, 1986 (1): 59.

27. Shen. "Strive to realize the construction of high-speed and high-standard teachers". Tianjin Democratic Progressive Party Newspaper, 1987 (1): 1.

28. Shen. "Nankai spirit will never be forgotten." Picture album celebrating the 80th anniversary of Nankai middle school+100800.108000000005

29. Shen "Mr Zhang Boling's educational thought and experience in running a school are valuable wealth of education in China". Journal of Nankai University (Social Science Edition), 1986 (3): 6.

social service

1978 ——1983, deputy director, Institute of Element Organic Chemistry, Nankai University.

1978 to 1990 was elected as a member of the 20th to 22nd Council of chinese chemical society.

1979 —— Professor of Chemistry Department of Nankai University, and was elected as a member of the 5th, 6th and 7th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He once devoted himself to social activities such as "bringing order out of chaos" and redressing false and wrong cases with great enthusiasm, and did a lot of useful work as a member of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

1978 to 1980, joined the China Association for the Promotion of Democracy and served as a member of the Central Committee of the Democratic Progressive Party.

In June, 1980, 1 1 was elected as a member of the Chemistry Department of China Academy of Sciences.

1982, joined the China * * * production party. He also devoted a lot of energy to reforming higher education and developing adult education. Concurrently president of Tianjin United Amateur University; He used to be an adjunct professor in the Department of Chemistry of Shanxi University, the Department of Chemistry of Zhejiang Normal University, the Department of Chemistry of Chongqing University, the Department of Applied Chemistry of Beijing Institute of Iron and Steel, and an honorary professor of Xinjiang University and Xinjiang Normal University. He is keen on the work of academic groups,

65438-0978 was elected as a member of the 20th Council of chinese chemical society and was re-elected as a member of the 22nd Council.

Personal life

Carry forward the "Nankai Spirit"

Shen believes that private Nankai schools (including universities, middle schools and primary schools) have maintained a high teaching level and the status of key schools, which is inseparable from the "Nankai Spirit". The motto of Nankai University is "changing with each passing day, allowing fairness and doing according to one's ability", which advocates students to study hard, strive for progress, and have the ability to "love the public morality of the country and society and serve the society with their husbands", which is not contradictory to our educational policy, but only emphasizes the need to look closely at the spirit. Nankai has very strict school rules. At that time, Nankai Middle School had 1.500 students and only1.654,38+00 staff. All principals and teachers try to set an example for their students. He believes that we must inherit and carry forward China's excellent educational tradition under new conditions and create a good educational environment for the growth of talents. Since 1980, he has expounded his educational thoughts in the form of CPPCC proposals and speeches, interviews with reporters, writing suggestions and articles. He believes that universities should have their own characteristics, and Zhang Boling's educational thought of cultivating the "Nankai Spirit" is a valuable asset, which should not disappear, but should be carried forward. Every July 7th Incident, he publicly displays pictures and slides of Nankai campus destroyed by Japanese bombing and Japanese war of aggression against China, which inspires students' patriotic enthusiasm and love for the school. He used his diligence and achievements to spread the Nankai spirit with his words and deeds. He said in an article: "I am a student trained by Nankai School, and I am deeply fascinated by what Nankai Education has given me." "Every school should have a school song and its own motto, so as to clarify the purpose of running a school and the specific requirements for students. These requirements should be very attractive to students, so that they can be deeply edified and encouraged in their studies for several years. They love their alma mater, teachers and classmates from the bottom of their hearts, and regard being a student of this school as a lifelong honor with a high sense of honor. No matter in school or in society, we should embody the fine tradition of our alma mater with our words and deeds, and we are not allowed to defile our reputation. It is a success to achieve this level of education. " Shen grew up from this successful education and struggled for it.

92-year-old Academician Kaibo: Typing fast.

June 5438 +2007 10, an old academician who was over 90 years old kept pace with the times and set up a personal blog online. In order to realize his ideal of becoming a strong country in education, the famous chemist named his blog "Shen Educator's Blog" and publicized Nankai University and its educational ideas through the Internet. This online writer, who is over eighty years old, often updates his blog content as long as his physical condition allows. Speaking of his blog, Shen is very proud: "I typed most of them word by word." I can type quickly and then paste directly. "

Teacher Shen's blog is very popular with netizens, with nearly 26,000 visits and more than 200 comments. Some time ago, Mr. Shen stopped updating his blog because of illness. On the afternoon of June 5438+February, 2008 1 1, 92-year-old academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences and professor of chemistry department of Nankai University appeared at the graduate education forum of Nankai University. Teacher Shen told his colleagues and netizens who care about him that he will continue to write his own personal blog after a period of time, and Shen, who has never fallen behind, will also open a personal blog on the Internet-"Shen Educator's Blog" to publicize the educational concept.

In the eyes of colleagues and students, Mr. Shen always keeps a young heart. Shen began to study computers at the age of 80 and applied computer technology to scientific research and teaching. At the age of 85, he won the first prize of national teaching achievement with the multimedia teaching software of Periodic Department of Chemical Elements. In order to promote the combination of computer and chemistry, Shen set up a "Softening Association" composed of young teachers and students in the Department of Chemistry of Nankai University to push chemistry into the future.

Personality assessment

Shen's life is a life of patriotic dedication, a life of teaching and educating people, a life of hard struggle, a life of selfless dedication, and a life of practicing the spirit of "public ability" in Nankai. He is a down-to-earth pioneer. He never feels inferior because he is belittled by others, nor is he proud because he is praised by others. He is honest, diligent and makes progress step by step. Although he left us, his strong party spirit, noble character, rigorous style and excellent teaching style are always worth learning and remembering. (Nankai University)

Commemoration of future generations

Farewell to the body

After the death of Academician Shen, leading comrades of the Party and the state, relevant ministries and commissions of the central government and the state, leading comrades of Tianjin, academia, brother schools, relatives and friends of Academician Shen before his death, colleagues, students and people from all walks of life sent messages of condolence, presented elegiac couplets and wreaths, and mourned and remembered in different ways.

Li Keqiang, Zhang Dejiang, Yu, Zhang, Liu Yandong, Zhao, Zhu Rongji, Wen Jiabao, Li Lanqing, Wu Guanzheng and Yang Jing sent wreaths to express their deep condolences and express their deep condolences to their families.