What does a Botanist Do?

Botanist refers generally to scientists who study the morphology, classification, physiology, ecology, distribution, occurrence, genetics, and evolution of plants on the earth. The purpose of botanist research is to develop, utilize, transform, and protect plant resources, so that plants can provide humans with more food, fiber, medicine, and building materials.

Botanist

Li Jizhen

Li Jichen

Li Jichen, a Chinese botanist. Born in Xinghua County, Jiangsu Province on August 24, 1897, and died in Hohhot on December 12, 1961. He entered St. John's University in 1916, transferred to the Forestry Department of Jinling University in 1918, and graduated from Tsinghua University with public funds to stay in the United States after graduating in 1921. He entered Yale University's Forest Research Institute as a graduate student. He received a master's degree in 1923. He received his PhD in 1925 and returned to China the same year. First taught at Jinling University (1925 ~ 1926), and later taught at Nankai University (1926 ~ 1929) and Tsinghua University (1929 ~ 1936). During the Anti-Japanese War, he moved in with the university. He served as a professor at Changsha Provisional University (1937-1938) and Kunming Southwest United University (1938-1946), and returned to Tsinghua University (1946-1951) as a professor after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. In 1952, the national faculties and departments were transferred to Peking University as a professor and director of the Department of Botany. In 1955, he was appointed as a member of the Biology Department of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 1957 he served as Vice President of Inner Mongolia University. After returning home in 1925, he devoted himself to the research of plant physiology, plant ecology and plant community. In plant physiology, he has studied photosynthesis, water absorption of plant cells, auxin, and in vitro test-tube culture of plant organs and tissues. When he taught at Nankai University, he was simple and simple. He measured the rate of photosynthesis by counting the bubbles emitted by aquatic plants. He found that when the light intensity or the color of the light changes, the photosynthetic rate has an instantaneous effect, that is, it takes some time to reach a constant speed. This result was the discovery of two pioneers of photosynthetic mechanisms, more than ten years earlier than similar findings abroad. His research on the embryonic development of Ginkgo biloba using in vitro culture is the beginning of artificial culture of plant tissues and organs in China.

Botanist Single

Single cricket, born in Gaoan County, Jiangxi Province in 1909, is a famous botanist in China. In 1934, he graduated from the Department of Biology of Central University and was an assistant researcher at the Institute of Animal and Plant Research of the Central Academy of Sciences. He aspired to develop the motherland's botany, and took the plant specimens and materials collected with painstaking care more important than life. After the Lugou Bridge Incident in 1937, in order to protect plant specimens, regardless of the day-to-day bombing, regardless of his forthcoming wife, he traveled thousands of miles from Shanghai to Yungui, and finally transferred all the specimens to the rear Chongqing. In 1946 he traveled abroad to study in the United States. Three years later he received a Ph.D. in botany from the University of California and was invited to be a member of the American Society of Technologists. On the eve of the liberation of the motherland, after hearing the news, he was so sleepless that he couldn't get a Ph.D. certificate, and couldn't care to take out his savings deposit at the bank, and quietly caught up with the last American liner to Shanghai in 1949. May returned to the embrace of the motherland in May. After returning to China, he became a researcher at the Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica, actively devoted himself to the construction and scientific career of the new socialist China, and started to preside over the establishment of the East China Workstation of the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. When Shanghai was liberated, he was received by Marshal Chen Yi, and in 1956 he was cordially received by Chairman Mao Zedong. In 1957, he gloriously joined the Chinese Communist Party. The enthusiasm and encouragement of the older generation of proletarian revolutionaries encouraged him to overcome all difficulties: the solemn vows of the party kept him from getting lost. He specializes in plant taxonomy, especially devoted to umbelliferous plant classification, and is a pioneer in the research of umbelliferous plants in China. For decades, he has extensively collected and documented predecessors' literatures, waded mountains and waters to collect plant specimens, and studied tens of thousands of umbelliferous plant specimens collected by major herbariums at home and abroad. During the ten-year catastrophe of the "Cultural Revolution", the "rebels" attempted to burn more than 400,000 specimens in the collection. The single person said angrily: "If you want to burn, burn me, don't burn the specimen." Because of his unremitting struggle, he left today's motherland s botanical research with invaluable treasure.

Wu Qijun

Wu Qijun's character is Zhai Zhai; nickname is Lou Nong. Gushi people from Henan. Qing Emperor Qianlong was born on February 6 (March 1, 1789); Daoguang died on December 11, 26 (January 27, 1847). Botany, mineralogy.

Wu Qijun was born into a bureaucratic family. His father, Wu Yan, and his brother, Wu Qiyan, had held government positions such as Hanlin, Shi Lang, and Shuntianfu (now Beijing). In the first year of Daoguang (1821), his father died and his mother-in-law was in Daoguang five years (1825). His house is called "Miyabodi". The surname Wu is one of the "big four families" in Gushi County, the former Qing Dynasty.

Wu Qijun was a good learner since he was a child. When he was 21 years old (1810), he was selected as a candidate, and when he was 28 years old (1817) he was selected as a champion. Later, he served as governor or governor of Hubei, Jiangxi Xuezheng, Hunan, Hubei, Gansu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Yunnan, Guizhou, Fujian, Shanxi and other provinces. He also served as a senior official such as Yan Zheng. ". Wu Qijun is different from ordinary officials in the Qing Dynasty. He has profound knowledge in botany and mineralogy. The Book of Traveling Chronicles "and other books, all of which have high academic value.

Chen Bangjie

Chen Bangjie (1907 ~ 1970) is a world-famous bryophyte scientist and founder of bryophyte research in China. professor. Jiang Sultan is a prisoner. He graduated from the Department of Biology of Central University in 1931. He received his Ph.D. in science from the University of Berlin in 1939. Former professor at Central University. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he has been a professor at Nanjing University, a professor at Nanjing Normal University (now Nanjing Normal University), a director of the Department of Biology, and a researcher at the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Member of Jiusan Society. He is the representative of the third National People's Congress. Has long been engaged in teaching and research in botany. He is the author of The Chronicles of Chinese Moss and so on. In the 1950s, Professor Chen Bangjie recruited the first graduate student in the history of Nanjing Normal University. ^[1]

Feng Guozhen

Feng Guozhen, a well-known botanist, horticulturalist and one of the founders of the Kunming Institute of Botany, has been recognized by his peers for his achievements in plant taxonomy research and the development and utilization of plant resources. In particular, in-depth research has been done on the Rhododendronaceae, Camelliae, Acanthaceae, Malvaceae, etc., clarifying many problems of confusion, laying the foundation for plant classification and introduction and domestication. Mr. Feng Guozhen has been devoted to the research of ornamental plants in the garden for a long time. Based on the in-depth research on the ornamental plant resources in Yunnan, he has promoted the selection of eight famous flowers in Yunnan. In order to find China's rare tree species, Rhododendron fortunei, he organized manpower three times and went to Tengchong twice in person, went deep into the virgin forest, and finally found it in 1981. Mr. Feng Guozhen has edited "Chinese Rhododendrons" 1-3, "Chinese Rare and Endangered Flowers", "Chinese Rhododendrons", "Yunnan Camellia", etc. in his lifetime; he has edited "Chinese Plants," "And other important monographs, enjoy a high reputation at home and abroad.