Bei Shizhang
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Bei Shizhang (Simplified Chinese:贝时璋, Traditional Chinese:貝時璋, pinyin:Bèi Shízhāng; also written Shi-Zhang Bei), is a renowned Chinese biologist and educator. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
He was born in Zhenhai, Zhejiang province on 10 October 1903. He is now the oldest member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the honorary superintendent of the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
He is one of the founders of Chinese cytology, embryology and biophysics. He is considered as the "Father of Chinese Biophysics". The asteroid 31065 Beishizhang was named in his honour on the occasion of his 100th birthday.
He obtained his doctorate from the University of Tübingen (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen) in 1928.