Sex:	Male
Birth Date:	Aug. 15, 1930
Birth Place:	Changshu City, Jiangsu Province
Nationality:	Han

Cao Chunan, an expert on Corrosion science and Electrochemistry, graduated from Tongji University in 1952, he is a leader and the pioneer in the corrosive electrochemical field in China. Some of his achievements have reached the highest level in the world.

His work "Principle of Corrosive Electrochemistry" addresses the special laws of corrosive electrochemistry from such aspects as equilibrium thermodynamics, irreversible process thermodynamics, electrode process dynamics of multi-electrode system and multi-reaction coupling system. Cao has studied statistical distribution of the deepest corrosive hole depth and statistical deduction of average density of corrosive active points. He deduced the probability formula and spectrum power density equation of electrochemical noise. 

He was elected as an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991.