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Noted Chinese botanist Wu Zhengyi, discoverer of 1,[url=http://www.pradaoutletuks.co.uk]prada shoes men[/url],766 plants, dies
KUNMING, China, June 21 () -- A Chinese botanist who won the country's top science award in 2007 for work on sustainable use of plant resources and other research has died, officials said.Botanist Wu Zhengyi died at age 97 in Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province, China's official Xinhua news agency reported.Wu was granted the State Scientific and Technological Award for 2007 for work in his specialties of systematic botany, plant geography, plant diversity and conservation.Research on 1,766 new plant populations made him the top botanist in China in terms of the number of plants that he discovered and named.A native of east China's Jiangxi Province, Wu was instrumental in initiating several extensive surveys of plant resources in East Asia.He served as honorary director of the Kunming Institute of Botany under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. |
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