China News Agency, Beijing, November 16th (Reporter Sun Zifa) The Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences) issued an obituary on the 16th: Wang Wencai, a famous plant taxonomist, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, researcher of the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and member of the China Democratic League, He died in Beijing at 15:13 on November 16, 2022, at the age of 96.
Academician Wang Wencai was born in Yexian County, Shandong Province (now Laizhou City, Shandong Province). He was born in Jinan, Shandong Province on June 5, 1926. He graduated from the Biology Department of Beijing Normal University in August 1949 and stayed there as a teacher. In March 1950, he was transferred to the Chinese Academy of Sciences for Plant Taxonomy Research. Institute of Botany (now Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences), was elected academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1993.
Academician Wang Wencai has won many honors and awards, including the 1987 National Natural Science First Prize, the 1996 Qiushi Science and Technology Foundation Biology Award, the 1997 Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Science and Technology Progress Award, and the 2009 National Natural Science First Prize awards etc.
Academician Wang Wencai is one of the leaders in the field of plant taxonomy and phytogeography in China, and is also a world-renowned plant taxonomist.
He carried out extensive and in-depth research on the flora of China, published 28 new genera and about 1,370 new species, and proposed 16 intermittently distributed samples and 3 migration routes of East Asian flora, which are Ranunculaceae and Gesneriaceae. , Urticaceae and other taxa taxonomic research master.
Academician Wang Wencai took the lead in organizing the compilation and research of "Illustrated Book of Higher Plants of China", and is also one of the main contributors to "Flora of China", making important contributions to finding out the background of China's plant resources and promoting the development of China's agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry.
The Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences stated that the death of academician Wang Wencai is a great loss for the institute and also for the Chinese botanical community.
According to the wishes of Academician Wang Wencai and the requirements for the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the funeral was simplified after consultation with relatives.
The Funeral Committee of Academician Wang Wencai of the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences accepted condolence messages and letters from all walks of life, and conveyed condolences to the relatives of Academician Wang Wencai.
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