Compiled from the following sources:

Special biographic research
Wen Wei Publishing Company, Ltd. 2002-2006

Who's Who, Current Chinese Leaders
Wen Wei Publishing Company, Ltd. 2003-2005

Revision History:

Biography Revised: 6/11/2003
Career Data Updated: 3/26/2006

PHOTO: Zeng Chengkui
Zeng Chengkui 曾呈奎
Marine Biologist

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.

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