Shu Chun Teng (, 12 December 1902 – 1 May 1970), also abbreviated as S. C. Teng, was a Chinese

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Early life

Born in

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of Fuzhou, Teng graduated from

Tsinghua University Tsinghua University (; abbr. THU) is a national public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education. The university is a member of the C9 League, Double First Class University Plan, Projec ...

in 1923. He went on to continue his studies in

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, returning to China with a master's degree he had obtained at

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to ...

in 1928.

Occupation and work

In 1945 he went to

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and set up the Forest Exological Research Centre. Since 1949, he served as assistant director and vice president of

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, and then in 1955 he served in the same previously stated post in Northeast Agricultural College. He was a researcher and deputy director of the Institute of Microbiology of Chinese Academy of Sciences since 1955, member of the Department of Biology in the

Chinese Academy of Sciences The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); ), known by Academia Sinica in English until the 1980s, is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for natural sciences. It has historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Repub ...

References

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