Wu Zhengyi

{{Short description|Chinese botanist (1916–2013)}}

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| native_name = 吴征镒

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1916|06|13|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Jiujiang, Jiangxi, Republic of China

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2013|06|20|1916|06|13}}

| death_place = Kunming, Yunnan, People's Republic of China

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| fields = Botany

| workplaces = Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences

| alma_mater = Tsinghua University
National Southwestern Associated University

| awards = Highest Science and Technology Award (2007)

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Wu Zhengyi ({{zh|s=吴征镒}}; June 13, 1916 – June 20, 2013)[https://web.archive.org/web/20131001211221/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-06/21/c_132475599.htm Xinhua – Obituary] was a Chinese botanist and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Wu specialized in Botanical Geography and Medicinal Botany. He is also known by the alternative spellings of 'Wu Cheng-yih',{{cite web |url=http://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/botanist_search.php?mode=details&id=225 |title=Wu Zhengyi |work=Index of Botanists |publisher=Harvard University Herbarium |access-date=January 26, 2012}} 'Wu Zheng Yi'{{ cite web |url=http://www.ipni.org:80/ipni/idAuthorSearch.do?id=11888-1 |title=Author Details for Wu, Cheng Yih |work=IPNI |access-date=January 26, 2012}} and 'Cheng Yih Wu'.

Wu was born in Jiujiang, Jiangxi, and grew up in Yangzhou, Jiangsu. He graduated from Tsinghua University in 1937. From 1940 to 1942, he pursued his postgraduate study at Peking University, under supervision of Zhang Jingyue, then chair of the department of Biology at PKU. In 1950, Wu became a research fellow and vice director of the Botanical Institute of CAS. He was elected an academician of CAS in 1955. Wu was appointed as the director of Kunming Botanical Institute of CAS in 1958.

International Cosmos Prize prizewinner 1999, On January 8, 2008, Wu received the prestigious State Preeminent Science and Technology Award for 2007, the highest scientific prize awarded in China.

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