Shen Shanjiong

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In this Chinese name, the family name is Shěn.
Shen Shanjiong
沈善炯
Shen Shanjiong (left), Luo Shijun (middle) and Zhao Zhongyao (right) in 1951.png
Shen Shanjiong (left), Luo Shijun (middle) and Zhao Zhongyao (right) in the Embassy of the Republic of China in Japan, in November 1951
Born(1917-04-13)April 13, 1917
Wujiang County, Jiangsu, China
DiedMarch 26, 2021(2021-03-26) (aged 103)
Shanghai, China
Alma materNational Southwestern Associated University
California Institute of Technology
Scientific career
FieldsMicrobial biochemistry
InstitutionsInstitute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Shen Shanjiong (Chinese: 沈善炯; pinyin: Shěn Shànjiǒng; April 13, 1917 – March 26, 2021) was a Chinese microbiologist and geneticist. He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Biography[]

Shen was born into a family of farming background in Wujiang County, Jiangsu, on April 13, 1917.[1] He attended Tailaiqiao School (泰来桥初级小学) and Tongli School (同里高级小学). After graduating from Wujiang Middle School (吴江中学), he was accepted to Suzhou Agricultural School.[1] In 1937, he was admitted to the University of Nanking.[1] In the summer of the same year, he studied at the Agricultural College of Guangxi University due to the Second Sino-Japanese War.[1] In 1939, he transferred to the National Southwestern Associated University, where he studied fungus under Dai Fanglan (戴芳澜).[1]

In 1944, he became an instructor at Huazhong University.[1] The next year, he worked as an assistant researcher at the Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica, in Beibei, Sichuan (now Beibei District of Chongqing), under the introduction of Zhang Jingyue (张景钺).[1] In 1946, he was appointed an assistant of the Department of Botany, Peking University.

In 1947, he pursued advanced studies in the United States, first earning a doctor's degree in molecular genetics from California Institute of Technology in 1950 and then carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Wisconsin.[1][2] He returned to China after the outbreak of the Korean War.[1] In November 1950, he became an associate professor at the School of Medicine, Zhejiang University.[1] In 1952, he was transferred to the Chinese Academy of Sciences as an associate research fellow and was promoted to research fellow in 1956.[1] Since 1980, he was a visiting professor at California Institute of Technology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Boston Biomedical Research Institute. In 1984, he was hired as an honorary professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, helping to set up the Department of Biological Science and Technology.

On March 26, 2021, he died of illness in Shanghai, aged 103.[3]

Contributions[]

Shen developed aureomycin in 1957, making China the fourth country in the world to produce aureomycin.[1]

Honours and awards[]

  • 1956 State Natural Science Award (First Class)
  • 1979 State Natural Science Award (First Class)
  • 1981 State Natural Science Award (First Class)
  • 1997 Tan Kah Kee Award for Life Sciences
  • 1999 Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation
  • 1980 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Chen Keke (陈珂珂) (March 27, 2021). 缅怀！百岁院士沈善炯逝世，曾攻克金霉素打破美国垄断 [Farewell, Shen Shanjiong, a centenary academician, dies]. bjd.com.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved April 2, 2021.
  2. ^ 缅怀！沈善炯院士：科学研究应该怎么做 [Farewell, academician Shen shanjiong]. qq.com (in Chinese). March 26, 2021. Retrieved April 2, 2021.
  3. ^ 与您告别，我们最年长的院士 [Farewell to you, our oldest academician]. thepaper.cn (in Chinese). March 27, 2021. Retrieved April 2, 2021.
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