Sun Daye
Sun Daye | |||||||
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孙大业 | |||||||
| Born | 25 July 1937 | ||||||
| Died | 7 July 2025 (aged 87) Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China | ||||||
| Alma mater | China Agricultural University | ||||||
| Scientific career | |||||||
| Fields | Cytology | ||||||
| Institutions | Hebei Normal University | ||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 孙大业 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 孫大業 | ||||||
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Sun Daye (Chinese: 孙大业; 25 July 1937 – 7 July 2025) was a Chinese cytologist who was a professor at Hebei Normal University, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was a delegate to the 10th National People's Congress.[1]
Biography
[edit]Sun was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, on 25 July 1937, while his ancestral home is in Longwan District of Wenzhou.[1][2][3] He had three siblings.[1] His father Sun Ming graduated from Shanghai Law and Politics College and Zhijiang University Business School.[1] Due to being born during the Second Sino-Japanese War, his family moved to Guiyang, capital of southwest China's Guizhou province to escape the war.[1] After war, he attended Yichun Primary School in Jiangxi province in 1946.[1] In the autumn of 1948, Sun returned to Wenzhou, where he enrolled at Yongchang Primary School and Wenzhou No.2 High School.[1] In 1955, he was accepted to Beijing Agricultural University (now China Agricultural University), majoring in agriculture.[1][2][3]
After university in 1959, Sun was assigned to Shijiazhuang Normal University (now Hebei Normal University), where he successively worked as a teaching assistant, lecturer (until 1983), associate professor (promoted in 1984), and professor (promoted in 1989).[1][2][3] In 1981, he was sent to the United States as a visiting scholar, and studied in the Department of Botany at the University of Texas and the Department of Cell Biology at Baylor College of Medicine.[1] He returned to China in August 1983 and became director of the Cell Teaching and Research Department and the Cell Biology Research Department.[1]
On 7 July 2025, Sun died in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, at the age of 87.[1][2][3]
Honours and awards
[edit]- 2001 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)[2]
- 2002 Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation[2]
- 2010 State Natural Science Award (Second Class)[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Wang Ruojiang (王若江); Chen Xiqian (陈希茜) (2025-07-12). 孙大业院士有股“牛劲” 胞弟孙大同深情讲述哥哥成长故事和家风家德. Wenzhou News (in Chinese). Retrieved 2025-08-06.
- ^ a b c d e f g 中国科学院院士孙大业逝世. thepaper.cn (in Chinese). 2025-07-08. Retrieved 2025-08-06.
- ^ a b c d Chang Fangyuan (常方圆) (2025-07-14). 孙大业：毕生叩问生命奥秘. qq.com (in Chinese). Retrieved 2025-08-06.