Hou Debang
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Hou Debang (Chinese: 侯德榜; 1890–1974) was a scientist and chemical engineer in China.
Graduated from Tsinghua University in 1912, he was one of the scholars sent to the United States to study modern technologies. He obtained his master's degree in chemical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and later obtained his doctoral degree at Columbia University[citation needed].
Among his discoveries was improving the Solvay process for producing sodium carbonate in 1933.
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