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Biography Revised: 5/26/2003
Career Data Updated: 3/26/2006

PHOTO: Tan Jiazhen
Tan Jiazhen 谈家桢
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Geneticist

Biography

Tan Jiazhen, male, Han nationality, is a native of Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. He graduated from Dongwu University in 1930 and obtained a master's degree from the Research Institute of Yanjing University in 1932. Tan then acquired a doctorate degree from California Polytechnic Institute of 1936. He is a senior academician and geneticist.

Since the 1930s, Tan has studied hereditary variation of the splash of Asian Harmoria axyridis and the evolution of cellular hereditary gene maps and intraspecies. His discovery about the allel mosaic dominance hereditary of Harmoria axyridis and polygene hereditary generated tremendous international attention.

His academic contributions have led to recognition from international research academies. He is a foreign academician with the American National Academy of Science and the Italian National Academy of Science. In 1999, he became an honorary lifelong academician of the New York Academy of Science.

In China, he was elected an academician of the Third World Academy of Science in 1985. He is also an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Career Data

Professor, Fudan University Shanghai Municipality
1999— Honorary Academician, New York Academy of Science
1987— Foreign Academician, Italian National Academy of Science
1985— Academician, Third World Academy of Sciences
1985— Foreign Academician, American National Academy of Science
1980— Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1932 Graduate, Yanjing University Beijing Municipality (Received Master's Degree)
1930 Graduate, Dongwu University Jiangsu Province, Suzhou City


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