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Hung Yu Chen

by Susan J. Ainsworth
May 11, 2015 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 93, Issue 19

Hung Yu Chen, 85, an industrial R&D chemist, died on Jan. 27 in Morton Grove, Ill., after a stroke.

A native of Ningbo, China, Chen earned a B.S. degree in chemistry in 1952 from National Taiwan University. He received a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1960 from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, under Herbert S. Gutowsky.

After a postdoctoral stint at the University of Utah, Chen began a long career as a researcher at Goodyear Tire & Rubber in Akron, Ohio. In the 1960s, he worked with Nissim Calderon and Kenneth Scott on research that resulted in a paper in Tetra­hedron Letters, “Olefin metathesis­—A novel reaction for skeletal transformations of unsaturated hydrocarbons” (1967, DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4039(01)89881-6). Chen retired in 1984.

He was an emeritus member of ACS, joining in 1961.

Chen is survived by his wife of 59 years, Lu-Chi; sons, David, Peter, and Bruce; daughter, Alice; and 13 grandchildren.

Obituary notices of no more than 300 words may be sent to Susan J. Ainsworth at s_ainsworth@acs.org and should include an educational and professional history.

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