Bing Zhi (; 9 April 1886 - 21 February 1965), was a Chinese zoologist of

Manchu The Manchus (; ) are a Tungusic East Asian ethnic group native to Manchuria in Northeast Asia. They are an officially recognized ethnic minority in China and the people from whom Manchuria derives its name. The Later Jin (1616–1636) and ...

ancestry, considered the founder of China's neontology. He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and

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. He was a delegate to the 1st, 2nd and

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Biography

Bing Zhi was born Zhai Bingzhi () in

Kaifeng Kaifeng () is a prefecture-level city in east-central Henan province, China. It is one of the Eight Ancient Capitals of China, having been the capital eight times in history, and is best known for having been the Chinese capital during the Nort ...

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, on April 9, 1886, during the late Qing dynasty. His ancestral home in Jilin. Both his grandfather and father were teachers. In 1902 he attended the Imperial University of Henan. After graduating from the Imperial University of Peking (now

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) in 1908, he was sent abroad to study at the expense of the Qing government. He earned his bachelor's degree in 1913 from Cornell University under the supervision of J. G. Needham. In 1914 he organized the China Science Society and was an editor of ''Science''. From 1918 to 1920 he was a researcher of H. H. Donaldso. Bing returned to China in 1920 and that year became a professor at Nanjing Normal University. He joined the National Central University faculty in 1946, and moved to Fudan University in 1948. In June 1955 he was elected a fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. On February 21, 1965, he died at 78.

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