Zheng Lansun  is an inorganic chemist. Though born in Xiamen, Fujian Province, Zheng is a native of Wujiang, Jiangsu Province. He is a professor at the Department of Chemistry of Xiamen University. Zheng is a winner of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (1994), a national-level candidate of the “Hundred, Thousand and Ten-Thousand Talents Project” (1996), a Cheung Kong Distinguished Professor appointed by the Ministry of Education (2000), and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2001). He was one of the graduate candidates elected into the China-United States Chemistry Graduate Program (CGP program). Zheng was granted a doctoral degree from Rice University in 1986. After his graduation, he returned home and worked at the Department of Chemistry of Xiamen University until now. Zheng has engaged in the research on atomic clusters. He and his team have developed large-scale equipment for laser generation and in-situ study of atomic clusters, introduced a set of synthesis methods for macroscopic atomic clusters, discovered and generalized the formation and structural laws of atomic clusters, and expanded their research efforts to related nanostructures and nanoscale materials. Zheng has published more than 300 papers in journals such as Science. He has won the second prize of the National Natural Science Award in 2006, and the Science and Technology Progress Award issued by the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation in 2011.