Zhai Zhonghe (Chinese: 翟中和; pinyin: Zhái Zhōnghé; 18 August 1930 – 10 February 2023) was a Chinese cell biologist, and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was a member of the Chinese Communist Party.[1]
Zhai Zhonghe | |
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翟中和 | |
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| Born | 18 August 1930 |
| Died | 10 February 2023 (aged 92) Beijing, China |
| Alma mater | Tsinghua University Saint Petersburg State University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Cell biology |
| Institutions | Peking University |
Biography
editZhai was born in Liyang County (now Liyang), Jiangsu, on 18 August 1930.[2] His mother died when he was 8, and he was raised by his paternal grandmother.[3] He secondary studied at Jiangsu Provincial Liyang High School (江苏省立溧阳中学).[3] In 1950, he was admitted to Tsinghua University, where he majored in biology.[2][3] A year later, he was sent to study at the University of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg State University) on government scholarships.[2][3]
Zhai returned to China in 1956 and that same year became a professor at the Department of Biology, Peking University.[2][3] In 1959, he pursued advanced studies at the Institute of Biophysics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.[3] He returned to China in 1961 and continued to teach at Peking University.[3] In 1969, during the Cultural Revolution, he was sent to the May Seventh Cadre Schools to do farm work in the suburb of Nanchang, Jiangxi, and returned to Peking University in 1973.[3] He was a visiting scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1985 to 1986, studying nuclear skeleton and its relationship with gene expression under the supervision of S. Penman.[3]
Zhai died in Beijing on 10 February 2023, at the age of 92.[2][1]
Honours and awards
edit- 1991 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)[2]
- 1995 Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation
References
edit- ^ a b 翟中和院士逝世. qq.com (in Chinese). 12 February 2023. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f Jiang Ziwen (蒋子文) (11 February 2023). 细胞生物学家、中科院院士翟中和逝世，享年93岁. thepaper (in Chinese). Retrieved 12 February 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Zhang Shuo (张硕) (27 April 2017). 记我国著名细胞生物学家翟中和院士. mmcs.org.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 12 February 2023.