China Vitae

Biography

Zou Chenglu, male, Han nationality, was born in Qingdao, Shandong Province and is a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. He graduated from the Department of Chemistry of Xinan United University in 1945 and received a Doctorate Degree in Biochemistry from Cambridge University in 1951.

Zou was a researcher at the Biological Physics Research Institute and was elected academician of the Third World Scientific Academy in 1952. He was elected academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980.

As a biochemist , Zou has done extensive work on enzymes, including finding a character difference in purified cell pigment C when combined with mitochondria. His research on breath chain enzymes laid the foundation of enzymes research in China and his work on the fixed quantity relationship formula and drawing method for chemical decoration was called the "Zou Formula."