PEOPLE & POINTS
NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY ENGINEER DIES AT 91
On March 6, Mao Yongze, a nuclear technology engineer and an academician with the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), passed away in Beijing at the age of 91.
Mao was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, in 1930. In 1949, he was accepted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University as a chemical engineering major.
Later, he pursued further studies at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Peking University, and then at Tsinghua University.
After graduating from Tsinghua in 1953, he was assigned to the Institute of Modern Physics under the Chinese Academy
