Li Junxian (chemist)

Li Junxian (Chinese: 李俊贤; 10 March 1928 – 20 March 2024) was a Chinese chemist and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.^[1]

Li was a representative of the 15th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.^[1]

Li was born into a family of farming background in Meishan County (now Meishan), Sichuan, on 10 March 1928.^[1] In 1947, he enrolled at National Central Technical College (now Chengdu Textile College), where he majored in chemical engineering.^[1]

After graduating in 1950, he became deputy director of Pilot Plant at Shenyang Chemical Research Institute of Northeast Chemical Bureau.^[1] He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in June 1956. He studied at the Russian Language Training Class of the Ministry of Chemical Industry [zh] between June 1956 and July 1957. He was transferred to the Beijing Institute of Chemical Engineering in January 1958 and eventually becoming director of the Research Room in January 1960.^[1] In June 1966, he was appointed chief engineer of Qinghai Liming Chemical Plant (later was reshuffled as Liming Chemical Research Institute [zh]), and served until October 1992.^[2] He also served as president from July 1979 to May 1983.^[2]

Li married Ding Dayun (丁大云) in 1959.^[3] On 20 March 2024, Li died of heart failure in Luoyang, Henan, at the age of 96.^[1]

• 1989 State Technological Invention Award (Third Class) for the synthesis process of high-purity unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine by chloramine method^[4]
• 1995 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class) for the research on liquid unit based propellants such as Yutu-3^[4]
• 1995 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)^[4]