| Yu Chongwen | |
| Native Name: | 於崇文 |
| Native Name Lang: | zh |
| Birth Date: | 15 February 1924 |
| Birth Place: | Shanghai, China |
| Death Place: | Beijing, China |
| Fields: | Geochemistry |
| Workplaces: | China University of Geosciences |
| Alma Mater: | National Southwestern Associated University Peking University |
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Yu Chongwen (; 15 February 1924 – 12 June 2022) was a Chinese scientist who was a professor at the China University of Geosciences, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Yu was born in Shanghai, on 15 February 1924, while his ancestral home is in Ningbo, Zhejiang.[1] He secondary studied at Shanghai Nanyang High School. In 1944, he entered National Southwestern Associated University and graduated from the Department of Geology, Peking University in 1950.[1] He stayed at the university and worked as an assistant after graduation. In 1952, he joined the faculty of China University of Geosciences, where he founded the Department of Geochemistry later and was promoted to professor in 1980. [2]
On 12 June 2022, he died from an illness in Beijing, at the age of 98.[3]