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Tsinghua University.
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Wu Zhengyi
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Career
Wu specialized in Botanical Geography and Medicinal Botany. He is also known by the alternative spellings of "Wu Cheng-yih", "Wu Zheng Yi" and "Cheng Yih Wu". Wu was born in Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province, and grew up in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province.
He 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, Wu became a research fellow and vice director of the Botanical Institute of Chemical Abstracts Service. He was elected an academician of Chemical Abstracts Service in 1955. Wu was appointed as the director of Kunming Botanical Institute of Chemical Abstracts Service in 1958.
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Membership
Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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Nationality
People's Republic of China