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Who's Who, Current Chinese Leaders
Wen Wei Publishing Company, Ltd. 2003-2005
Biography Revised: 6/11/2003
Career Data Updated: 3/26/2006
Biography
Zeng Chengkui, male, Han nationality, is a native of Xiamen, Fujian Province. He graduated from Xiamen University in 1931, received a master's degree from the Lingnan University Research Institute in 1934, received a doctorate from the University of Michigan in 1942, and received an honorary doctorate from Ohio State University in 1987.
Zeng Chengkui has long been engaged in alga biological research and through his research discovered more than a hundred new series, two genera and one new family. He also provided the basic data for writing of Chinese alga records. He has achieved results in the development and chemical processing of economic alga and research on laver, kelp-cultivating biology. He obtained results from research on alga comparative photosynthesis and pigment absorption provided data for the discussion of creature evolvement and was the first to advocate that oceanic aquatic product must be in a way a combination of agriculture and animal husbandry.
Zeng is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Career Data
| Honorable Dean, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oceanography | ||
| Researcher, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oceanography | ||
| 1991 | Permanent Honorable Member, World Aquiculture Cultivation Academy | |
| 1987 | Honorary Doctorate, Ohio State University USA, Ohio, Columbus | |
| 1985— | Academician, Third World Academy of Sciences | |
| 1980— | Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences | |
| 1942 | Graduate, University of Michigan USA, Michigan, Dearborn (Received Doctorate) | |
| 1934 | Graduate, Hong Kong Lingnan University Hong Kong SAR (Received Master's Degree) | |
| 1931 | Graduate, Xiamen University Fujian Province, Xiamen City |
