Fangxun Li
He then traveled to the United States and obtained his PhD in 1934 at Northwestern University.[3][4][5] Having returned to the University of Nanking in 1934, he invited Choh Hao Li, who had recently obtained his Bachelor degree, to collaborate on a project; this led to a paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, and inspired Choh Hao Li to pursue graduate studies in the United States.The citation is: Distinguished chemist, teacher, and administrator, who, after earning his doctorate at Northwestern University, returned to his alma mater, Nanking University, where he became successively chairman of the Department of Chemistry and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts.When invading armies engulfed his country he supervised the removal of the university to far western China where, under most trying conditions and with meager equipment, he carried on both teaching and research.[8]His work was included in "Science Outpost", edited by Joseph Needham.