Tong Dizhou

Tong Dizhou () (28 May 1902 – 30 March 1979) was a Chinese embryologist remembered for his work in cloning. He was the former vice president of Chinese Academy of Science

Biography
Born in Yinxian, Zhejiang province, Tong graduated from Fudan University in 1924 with a degree in psychology. He received a PhD in 1930 from Free University Brussels (ULB). 

In 1963, Tong put DNA of a male carp into the egg of a female carp and became the first person to successfully clone a fish. He is regarded as "the father of China's clone".

Tong was also an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the first director of its Institute of Oceanology from its beginning in 1950 until 1978.

Related pages
List of Chinese scientists

References

Category:Embryologists
Category:1902 births
Category:1979 deaths
Category:Scientists from Zhejiang
Category:20th-century Chinese scientists