Wu Zhengyi | |||||||||
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吴征镒 | |||||||||
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Died | 20 June 2013 97) | (aged||||||||
Alma mater | Tsinghua University National Southwestern Associated University | ||||||||
Awards | Highest Science and Technology Award (2007) | ||||||||
Scientific career | |||||||||
Fields | Botany | ||||||||
Institutions | Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences | ||||||||
Chinese name | |||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 吴 征 镒 | ||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 吳 征 鎰 | ||||||||
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Wu Zhengyi (Chinese :吴征镒; June 13, 1916 – June 20, 2013) [1] was a Chinese botanist and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Wu specialized in Botanical Geography and Medicinal Botany. He is also known by the alternative spellings of 'Wu Cheng-yih', [2] 'Wu Zheng Yi' [3] and 'Cheng Yih Wu'. [3]
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International Cosmos Prize prizewinner 1999, On January 8, 2008, Wu received the prestigious State Preeminent Science and Technology Award for 2007, the highest scientific prize awarded in China.
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