Academician Nien-Chu C. Yang passed away on October 14 in Chicago at the age of 80.

Academician Yang graduated from St. John's University in Shanghai with excellent performance at his age of 19. In 1948, he went to the United States, and earned his Ph.D in the University of Chicago 4 years later, then doing researches in MIT and Harvard University. He had been teaching in the University of Chicago since 1956. From 1992 to 2000, he was Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor and had been granted the Emeritus Professor in 2000.

Academician Yang's research fields include Organic Chemistry, Photochemistry, Radiochemistry, Synthetic Chemistry, Biological Chemistry, and Nucleic Acid Chemistry. He was elected as Academician of Academia Sinica in 1982.