From inorganic to organic, she is the pioneer of my country's environmental chemistry industry

From inorganic to organic, she is the pioneer of my country's environmental chemistry industry

There can be no room for falsehood in scientific research, and scientific research achievements must be based on long-term, arduous and unremitting efforts in one direction.

——Excerpt from Xu Xiaobai’s “Application for Party Membership” in April 1980

1949

With the liberation of Shanghai

A group of young scientific research talents

Started to serve the cause of New China

Among them

There is a pretty girl who just graduated a year ago

In the years that followed

Accompanying the growth of New China

And became a pioneer in China's environmental chemistry industry

She is Xu Xiaobai, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Image source: Science Popularization China

As a top student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Xu Xiaobai graduated in 1948

My first job was as a research assistant.

After the founding of New China

Xu Xiaobai continued to grow and was transferred several times

Finally joined the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

In the 1970s, Xu Xiaobai took a group photo with researchers (first row, second from right). Image source: Party Committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Xu Xiaobai's mentor Liu Dagang

An inorganic chemist and physical chemist

Founder of Chinese Salt Lake Chemistry

Under his leadership

Xu Xiaobai has participated in a large number of research in the field of inorganic chemistry

From the development of calcium halophosphate new fluorescent material for fluorescent lamps

Contribute to my country's fluorescent lighting

Participate in the foundation soil reinforcement project of Jiamusi Sugar Factory

Then he started to study salt lake chemistry

Rare Earth Research

She made an extraordinary contribution

Won many honors including the Chinese Academy of Sciences Major Technological Achievement Award

1975

Xu Xiaobai plans to continue his career in inorganic chemistry research

Received a transfer order from the Institute of Environmental Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

From inorganic chemistry to organic chemistry

This is a huge leap

Facing opportunities and challenges

Xu Xiaobai rises to the challenge

From now on

Her scientific research life turned to environmental chemistry

Xu Xiaobai in the laboratory. Image source: Party Committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

1980s

Xu Xiaobai is mainly engaged in

Environmental Chemical Behavior of Toxic Organic Compounds

Ecotoxicology and distribution survey, etc.

Interdisciplinary research

Established a set

Comprehensive study of pollutant chemical behavior and

Ecological Effects Methodology

1995

Xu Xiaobai was commissioned by the State Environmental Protection Administration

Conducted a preliminary survey of persistent organic pollutants in China

Helping China in 2001

Successfully joined the Stockholm Convention

Xu Xiaobai's series of contributions

Promoted China's environmental protection cause

Xu Xiaobai took a photo with his students on his 80th birthday in 2006. Image source: Science Popularization China

While doing scientific research

Xu Xiaobai is also an educator

She took over the mission of her mentor Liu Dagang

Cultivating the next generation of talent

From inorganic to organic

From rare earth to environmental protection

Her life is a life spanning

A life of perseverance

In 2007, Xu Xiaobai attended the first academic committee meeting of the State Key Laboratory of Environmental and Ecotoxicology. Image source: Party Committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Xu Xiaobai

Joined the Communist Party of China in 1980

Source: Science and Technology Daily

◎ Sun Mingyuan, intern reporter of Science and Technology Daily

Editor: Zhang Qiqi

Reviewer: Wang Xiaolong

Final review: Liu Haiying

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