About Jitong Li
Lived 1897 – 1961 (aged 64). Jitong Li was a Chinese biologist.
Li Jitong (also romanized as Tsi-tung Li, ; 24 August 1897 – 12 December 1961) was a Chinese botanist and member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Biography Li was born on August 24, 1897, in Xinghua, Jiangsu, Qing China. He spent his childhood in his hometown, and in 1912, he was admitted to the Shanghai YMCA High School before transferring to St. John's University High School two years later.
After graduating from the University of Nanking, he received government funding to move to the United States and enrolled in the Yale Forest School. In 1925, he received a PhD with the doctoral thesis on "Soil Temperature as Influenced by Forest Cover".
After graduation, he returned to teach at the University of Nanking,
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Chinese biologist
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Jitong Li was born on 24 August 1897 in Jiangsu.
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Jitong Li died on 12 December 1961 in Hohhot.
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