About Shi Jiaonai
Lived 1920 – 2018 (aged 97). Shi Jiaonai was a Chinese botanist.
Shi Jiaonai (; 29 November 1920 – 24 November 2018) was a Chinese plant physiologist. He was a member of the China Democratic League (Minmeng).
Biography Shi was born in Jinjiang, Fujian, on November 29, 1920 and moved to the Philippines when he was ten. He returned to China in 1940. In 1944 he graduated from Zhejiang University, where he majored in botany.
In 1991 he was elected a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was a researcher at the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences before his death in November 2018.
Awards 1987 Second Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress, Chinese Academy of Sciences 2000 Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation 1989 Excellent Returned Overseas Chinese Intellectuals in China
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Who was Shi Jiaonai?
scientist from China (1920-2018)
When was Shi Jiaonai born?
Shi Jiaonai was born on 29 November 1920 in Jinjiang.
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Shi Jiaonai died on 24 November 2018 in Shanghai.
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Shi Jiaonai was a botanist.
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Shi Jiaonai was Chinese.
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