Bei,19031June 10, was born in Guiqiqiao Village (now Camel Street, zhenhai district, Ningbo) near Donghai, Ningbo, Zhejiang. His ancestors made a living by fishing, and his father was an employee of a German foreign firm. Bei Zhangshi went out to study with his father at the age of 12. First, I went to Dehua School in Hankou, and then I went to Wende College of Tongji Medical College in Shanghai to attend middle school. 192 1 Tongji medical college went to Germany to study after graduation, and studied at the universities of Freiburg, Munich and Tubingen successively. 1928 Graduated from the University of Tubingen in March with a doctorate in natural science. During his 89 years in Germany, Bei Zhangshi was influenced by Germany's strict rules of life and profound academic thoughts, which had a great influence on his later scientific research career. After graduating from Tubingen University, he stayed as a teaching assistant and engaged in scientific research under the guidance of the famous experimental biologist J.W. Harms 1929 Return to China in autumn. 1930 In April, the Biology Department of Zhejiang University was established in Hangzhou, and was hired as an associate professor in August. At the beginning of the department, there was a shortage of teachers. Bei Zhangshi offered courses in histology, embryology, invertebrate zoology, comparative anatomy and genetics. Besides giving lectures, Bei Zhangshi insisted on scientific research. Even during his stay in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Zhejiang University moved westward to the mainland, and his living and working conditions were extremely poor. He still tirelessly engaged in scientific exploration and cultivated a strong academic and scientific research atmosphere for the biology department of Zhejiang University. During his 20 years in Zhejiang University, he successively served as associate professor, professor, dean of the department and dean of the Faculty of Science, and trained many students, which promoted the development of biological science in China and had far-reaching influence. From 65438 to 0948, Bei was elected as the first academician of Academia Sinica. 65438-0948 was invited as a researcher at the Netherlands International Institute of Embryology. 1949 was elected as a member of the Dutch international embryology society.
After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), he traveled between Beijing and Hangzhou to help establish the China Academy of Sciences. 1954, Bei moved his laboratory to Beijing to take part in the work of the academic secretariat of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Beijing Institute of Experimental Biology was established 1957, as a researcher and director. 1958 was transformed into a biophysics research institute, where he served as researcher and director until 1983 was renamed honorary director.
Bei Zhangshi is knowledgeable, rigorous in his studies, conscientious and meticulous in his work, and has many academic part-time jobs. 1958, concurrently head of biophysics department of China University of Science and Technology; 1978 to 1982, who is also the head of the Department of Biological Education in the Graduate School of China University of Science and Technology; 1978 to 1984, chairman of the Chinese zoological society; 1980- 1983 was the chairman of China biophysics society, 1983- 1986 was the honorary chairman of Ren Xuehui; 1958 to 1983 as the editorial board and deputy editor of China science; 1980 Up to now, director of the editorial board of the biological volume of the encyclopedia of China; 1984, deputy director of the editorial board of the encyclopedia of China. Bei Zhangshi did his best to finish the shared work. 1973 was entrusted by the leaders of the academy of sciences at that time to write the proposal of science and technology infrastructure, and participated in the formulation of the national eight-year science plan of 1977, and they all went all out. June 65438+1October 10, 2003 is the centenary birthday of Bei. My husband's greatest wish is to publish his collection of essays before his centenary birthday. Mr. Wang has been saying that it will be boring to have a centenary birthday without essays. Therefore, it took Mr. Wang more than a year to edit and complete the second volume of Essays on Cell Reconstruction, which was officially published by Science Press in September.
Because of his outstanding achievements in science, Bei was elected as an academician of Academia Sinica in 1948, and was invited as a researcher of the Netherlands International Institute of Embryology in the same year. 1949 was elected as a member of the Netherlands International Institute of Embryology, and 1955 was employed as a member of the Biology Department of China Academy of Sciences. He has visited the Soviet Union, Britain, Sweden, Canada, the United States, France, Italy, Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Nepal, Pakistan, Vietnam and other countries many times as a scientist or scientific organizer. Especially after the stalemate between China and the United States in 1972 for more than 20 years, he led a delegation of scientists from China to visit the United States as a friendly envoy.
Bei Zhangshi has made great contributions to the scientific cause of China during his nearly 70 years of research and teaching career.