Tan Jiazhen

Tan Jiazhen (abbreviation :谈 家 桢, traditional characters :谈 家 桢; pinyin: Tan Jiazhen; Wade- Giles: T'an Chia -chen; * September 15, 1909; † 1 November 2008), also called CC Tan, was a Chinese geneticist and member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Curriculum vitae

Jiazhen was at Soochow University and received a PhD at the California Institute of Technology in 1937 under the supervision of Theodosius Dobzhansky. Other teachers were Thomas Hunt Morgan and Alfred Henry Sturtevant. Later he taught at Columbia University.

As a member of the Morgan group in the 1930s Tan helped to establish Drosophila as a leading genre for genetic studies.

Tan was also a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Tan died of multiple organ failure at the age of 99 years.