Tsinghua University National Southwestern Associated University
Awards
Highest Science and Technology Award (2007)
Scientific career
Fields
Botany
Institutions
Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese
吴征镒
Traditional Chinese
吳征鎰
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Wú Zhēngyì
Wade–Giles
Wu Cheng-yih
Wu Zhengyi (Chinese: 吴征镒; June 13, 1916 – June 20, 2013)[1] was a Chinese botanist and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Wu specialized in Botanical Geography and Medicinal Botany. He is also known by the alternative spellings of 'Wu Cheng-yih',[2] 'Wu Zheng Yi'[3] and 'Cheng Yih Wu'.[3]
Wu was born in Jiujiang, Jiangxi, and grew up in Yangzhou, Jiangsu. He graduated from Tsinghua University in 1937. From 1940 to 1942, he pursued his postgraduate study at Peking University, under supervision of Zhang Jingyue, then chair of the department of Biology at PKU. In 1950, Wu became a research fellow and vice director of the Botanical Institute of CAS. He was elected an academician of CAS in 1955. Wu was appointed as the director of Kunming Botanical Institute of CAS in 1958.
International Cosmos Prize prizewinner 1999, On January 8, 2008, Wu received the prestigious State Preeminent Science and Technology Award for 2007, the highest scientific prize awarded in China.
The standard author abbreviation C.Y.Wu is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[4]
^Xinhua – Obituary
^"Wu Zhengyi". Index of Botanists. Harvard University Herbarium. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
^ ab"Author Details for Wu, Cheng Yih". IPNI. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
WuZhengyi (Chinese: 吴征镒; June 13, 1916 – June 20, 2013) was a Chinese botanist and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Wu specialized...
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David E. (es) [in Spanish] & Brach, Anthony R. (1994). "Epimedium". In Wu, Zhengyi; Raven, Peter H. & Hong, Deyuan (eds.). Flora of China (online). eFloras...
Gelin Zhu, Sergei L. Mosyakin & Steven E. Clemants: Chenopodium - In: WuZhengyi, Peter H. Raven, Deyuan Hong (Hrsg.): Flora of China. Volume 5: Ulmaceae...
Beijing: Science Press & St. Louis: Missouri Botanical Garden Press, WuZhengyi, Peter H. Raven, pp. 351–414 "Chenopodium giganteum Tree Spinach PFAF...
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artist Wang Zhengyi Wang Wu (painter), a 17th-century Chinese painter Mount Wangwu, an alternative name for which is Wang Wu Mountain Wu Wang (disambiguation)...
Retrieved 2017-05-02. Qiu, Huaxing & Gilbert, Michael G. "Loranthus". In Wu, Zhengyi; Raven, Peter H. & Hong, Deyuan (eds.). Flora of China (online). eFloras...
September 2021. Zhang, Dianxiang & Hartley, Thomas G. "Murraya". In Wu, Zhengyi; Raven, Peter H. & Hong, Deyuan (eds.). Flora of China (online). eFloras...
Zhengyi Dao (Chinese: 正一道; pinyin: Zheng Yi Dào), also known as the Way of Orthodox Unity, Teaching of the Orthodox Unity, and Branch of the Orthodox...
"Ligusticum Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 250. 1753". In Flora of Chinaial Committee; WuZhengyi; Peter Raven (eds.). Apiaceae through Ericaceae. Flora of China. Vol. 14...
Songyun & Tamura, Minoru N., Aspidistra, retrieved 16 July 2013, in Wu, Zhengyi; Raven, Peter H. & Hong, Deyuan, eds. (1994), Flora of China (online)...
Retrieved 2019-07-15. Li, Xi-wen & Hedge, Ian C. (1994). "Mentha". In Wu, Zhengyi; Raven, Peter H. & Hong, Deyuan (eds.). Flora of China (online). eFloras...
Chiu, Zhi Wei, and Peter S. Green. 1996. "Oleaceae" pages 272-319. In: WuZhengyi, Peter H. Raven, and Hong Deyuan (editors). 1994 onward. Flora of China...
Mosyakin & Steven E. Clemants: Chenopodiaceae: Atriplex - online, In: WuZhengyi, Peter H. Raven, Deyuan Hong (ed.): Flora of China, Volume 5: Ulmaceae...
Robert E. Paull, p. 552 Chen, Jie & Craven, Lyn A., "Syzygium", in Wu, Zhengyi; Raven, Peter H. & Hong, Deyuan (eds.), Flora of China (online), eFloras...
2017-02-22 Chen, Jiarui; Hoch, Peter C. & Raven, Peter H., "Chamerion", in Wu, Zhengyi; Raven, Peter H. & Hong, Deyuan (eds.), Flora of China (online), eFloras...
Gilbert (2008). "Acalypha australis Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 1004. 1753". In WuZhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan (ed.). Oxalidaceae through Aceraceae. Flora...
Geranium. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Geranium erianthum. WuZhengyi, Mila Tryon, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan. "Geranium erianthum Candolle"...
Min, Tianlu & Kubitzki, Klaus (2008), "Daphniphyllum macropodum", in Wu, Zhengyi; Raven, Peter H. & Hong, Deyuan (eds.), Flora of China, Vol. 11 (online...
famine food. Hong, Deyuan & Howarth, Dianella G. "Scaevola taccada". In Wu, Zhengyi; Raven, Peter H. & Hong, Deyuan (eds.). Flora of China (online). eFloras...
Encyclopedia. Vol. 5. Li, Anjen & Park, Chong-wook (2003). "Fallopia". In Wu, Zhengyi; Raven, Peter H. & Hong, Deyuan (eds.). Flora of China (online). Vol...
Mei-chen; Qiu, Lian-qing; Green, Peter S. (1996). "Oleaceae" (PDF). In Wu, Zhengyi; Raven, Peter (eds.). Flora of China. Vol. 15: Myrsinaceae through Loganiaceae...
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