Chen Chunxian

Chen Chunxian (August 6, 1934 - August 9, 2004) was a Chinese physicist and member of the Communist Party of China. He was known as the first person in Zhongguancun. He participated in the construction of China's first tokamak and served as the director of the Plasma Research Laboratory of the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was the youngest full professor and the first doctoral supervisor at the Institute of Physics. He graduated from the Department of Physics of Moscow State University.