Background
Zhengyi Wu was born on June 13, 1916 in Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China. He was the son of Qixian and Zhongxuan (Liu) Wu.
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Zhengyi Wu was born on June 13, 1916 in Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China. He was the son of Qixian and Zhongxuan (Liu) Wu.
Zhengyi Wu graduated from Tsinghua University in 1937. From 1940 to 1942, he pursued his postgraduate study at Peking University, under supervision of Zhang Jingyue, then chair of the department of Biology at PKU.
In 1950, Zhengyi Wu became a research fellow and vice director of the Botanical Institute of CAS. He was elected an academician of CAS in 1955. Wu was appointed as the director of Kunming Botanical Institute of CAS in 1958.