Zhai Zhonghe | |
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翟中和 | |
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Born | |
Died | 10 February 2023
Beijing, China | (aged 92)
Alma mater |
Tsinghua University Saint Petersburg State University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Cell biology |
Institutions | Peking University |
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 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]