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 Mr.
Tan Jiazhen (C. C. Tan) is an internationally well known geneticist
and one of the founders of modern Genetics in China. He is an
outstanding scientist and educator.
Mr. Tan Jiazhen was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang province in 1909. He got
Bachelor degree of Science from Soochow University of Soochow in 1930,
and Master degree of Science from Yencheng University of Peking in
1932. He got Ph. D. from California Institute of Technology, USA in
1936. In 1937, he was invited by President Zhu Kezhen and accepted the
position as a professor in Department of Biology of Chekiang
University. After liberation, he held a concurrent post as the dean of
Science College. Since 1952, following the nation-wide adjustment of
colleges and universities, he moved to Shanghai and became professor
and chairman of Biology Department in Fudan University. From 1961, he
held the position as the director of Genetics Institute, vice
president of Fudan University, provost of School of Life Science and
counselor to the president..
In his seventy-year- teaching career and research work, Mr. Tan
Jiazhen has taught General Biology, Comparative Anatomy of
Vertebrates, Embryology, Genetics, Cytology, Experimental Evolution,
Cytogenetics, Darwinism, Radiation Genetics, Protozoology, etc. He has
published more than ten different kinds of academic and translation
works and over one hundred research papers and scientific discussion
articles, most of which were collected in 'Selected Works of Tan
Jiazhen'(1987, Science Publishing House) and 'Essay Collection of Tan
Jiazhen'(1992, Zhejiang Science and Technology Publishing House). His
research work mainly includes cytogenetics, evolution genetics,
radiation genetics, toxicology genetics, molecular genetics and
genetic engineering about Lady-bug, fruit fly, Rhesus Monkey, human
and plants. Especially in the field of evolution of genetic structure
in Drosophila species group and the color pattern variation and
inheritance of Harmonia, he made some important findings, which
provide important evidence for the modern synthetic theory of
evolution. He found the phenomenon of mosaic dominance in the color
pattern inheritance of the beetle. This finding got great response
among international Genetics circle and was regarded as an important
contribution to the development of traditional genetics.
From 1978 on, he initiated many societies one after the other and held
the position as vice president, president and honorary president of
the Genetics Society of China, chief editor of the Chinese Journal of
Genetics, president of Environmental Mutagens Society of China and
president of Biotechnology Society of China. He enjoys lofty honors in
the world. He became a member in the standing council of the 8th (1948
in Sweden) International Congress of Genetics, vice president of the
15th (1983 in India), the 16th (1988 in Canada), the 17th (1993 in
U.K.). In 1996, he was elected to be president of the 18th (1998 in
Peking, China) International Congress of Genetics. Since 1978, he was
successively elected as honorary member of Genetics Society of Japan
and Great Britain, invited as a senior research fellow of Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt Institute of Cancer Research, USA, gained distinguished
Alumni Award from California Institute of Technology, received Medal
of Merit from Konstanz University of Germany and obtained the title as
honorary citizen of the State of California. He was also invited to be
a scientific advisor by ICGEB, UNIDO and advisory editor of Journal of
Genetics, Journal of Biology and Philosophy and the American newspaper
'The Scientist'. In 1995, he gained Distinguished Scientist Prize of
QiuShi Science and Technology Foundation. In 1999, he was honored with
international recognition by using his name to designate the minor
planet No. 3542 discovered by the Purple Golden Mountain Observatory
of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Mr. Tan Jiazhen was elected Academic member of the Chinese Academy of
Sciences in 1980, Foreign Associate of the U. S. National Academy of
Sciences and fellow of The Third World Academy of Sciences in 1985,
Foreign Member of Academia National delle Scienze detta dei XL, Italy
in 1987 and honorary life member of the New York Academy of Sciences
in 1999. He was chosen as a representative of the 3rd and 4th National
Peoples- Congress of China, a member in the standing committee of the
5th, 6th and 7th National People Political Consultative Conference of
China and simultaneously served as one of deputy chairmen of the
central committee of the Chinese Democratic League as well as the
chairman of the standing committee of her Shanghai chapter. At
present, he is an honorary chairman of the Central Committee of the
China Democratic League, director of Natural History Museum of
Shanghai, honorary president of Ningpo University, honorary president
of Shanghai Agriculture College, honorary provost of the School of
Life Sciences, honorary director of the Genetics Institute of Fudan
University and honorary director of National Human Genome Southern
Research Center at Shanghai.
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