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Chinanews.com, February 24th. The official Weibo of the Chinese Academy of Sciences issued an obituary on the evening of the 23rd, saying that Zhou Tonghui, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a researcher at the Institute of Materia Medica, the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, died at the Beijing Friendship Hospital on February 23, 2020. year old.
According to the website of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhou Tonghui, an analytical chemist. Born in Beijing on November 8, 1924, he was born in Guilin, Guangxi. He graduated from the Department of Chemistry of Peking University in 1944. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in Seattle in 1952. Researcher, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. In 1991, he was elected as a member (academician) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Mainly engaged in basic analysis of drug analysis and analysis of active ingredients of Chinese herbal medicines, research on drug metabolism and identification and analysis methods of metabolites. Leadership research has established analysis and confirmation methods for 100 drugs in five categories that are banned by athletes, and has established the China Doping Test Center as the director. Representative works include "Paper Chromatography and Thin Layer Chromatography" and "Modern Research on Chinese Herbal Medicine". Won the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award.