Chen Ziyuan
Chen Ziyuan is a Chinese agricultural scientist and nuclear physicist. He is the main founding father of China's nuclear agriculture.Biography
Chen, a native of Yin County of Zhejiang, studied at Daxia University in Shanghai. After graduation, he taught at Daxia, which became part of East China Normal University in 1952.
In 1953, Chen became an associate professor of Zhejiang Agricultural University. In 1958, Chen founded the first laboratory in China to study agricultural science by nuclear physics techniques, especially the radioactive isotope.
From 1979 to 1989, Chen was the vice-president and then President of the Zhejiang Agricultural University.
Currently, Chen is a professor at Zhejiang University College of Agriculture and Biotechnology.
Chen was head of the Zhejiang University Institute of Nuclear Agricultural Sciences and was head of the State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Agricultural Sciences of the Ministry of Agriculture. He was the Director-general of the Chinese Society of Nuclear Agricultural Sciences.
Chen was a Vice-president of the Zhejiang Association of Science and Technology. Chen was elected to Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991.
