According to news from the Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences on December 29: Academician Yin Wenying, a member of the Communist Party of China, a member of the Jiusan Society, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a famous entomologist, a soil zoologist, and a researcher at the Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, died due to illness. The treatment failed and he died at 15:36 on December 28, 2023 at Ruijin Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine at the age of 101.
Internationally recognized authoritative expert on protozoa research
The founder of Chinese soil zoology
On October 18, 1922, Academician Yin Wenying was born in Pingxiang, Hebei Province. He graduated from the Department of Biology of the former National Central University in July 1947 and joined the former Central University in August. Assistant at the Institute of Zoology of the Institute. In 1950, he became an assistant researcher at the Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 1963, he was transferred to the Shanghai Institute of Entomology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and served successively as associate researcher, researcher, deputy director and director of the academic committee of the institute. In May 1999, the Shanghai Institute of Entomology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Plant Physiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences were integrated into the Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and he served as a researcher.
Academician Yin Wenying is an internationally recognized authoritative expert on protozoa research, the founder of soil zoology in China, and a pioneer in the research of fish parasites and fish diseases in my country. He has devoted himself to my country's science and education.
"Be a learned person"
"The sky is your house, the earth is your bed, carry your luggage on your shoulders, and travel around the world!" Yin Wenying was born in a remote rural area in Hebei. When she was a little girl, she had Such lofty ideals seem to have destined her to have an extraordinary life.
Later she recalled that
it was the influence of her family that determined her life path.
Yin Wenying's father, Yin Zanxun, is a famous geologist and paleontologist in my country. He is also one of the first elected academicians (members of the academic department) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in New China. When he was young, Yin Zanxun would always take his daughter Yin Wenying with him whenever he went out to collect specimens on holidays. Although she could not understand the mysteries in those small stones at the time, she developed an interest and hobby in nature since she was a child. Flowers, grass, and bugs all became her favorite pets.
In 1946, Yin Wenying and her siblings took a group photo in front of the Crystal Terrace Institute of Geology on Zhujiang Road, Nanjing
Yin Zanxun stayed in France for 8 years. Yin Wenying, who lived in the countryside, was not able to go to school normally. After my father learned about this situation, he was very worried and repeatedly advocated to the elders in the family that girls should study and open up their own futures like boys.
Although he could not fully understand,
from then on,
Yin Wenying remembered one thing -
What boys can do, girls can do too.
After Yin Zanxun returned to China, Yin Wenying followed her mother to Peking and entered a regular primary school. "I remember my father often said, 'Learning more foreign languages is like growing a pair of eyes.' At that time, my father always invited several scholars studying in Germany to gather together every week. My father taught them French, and they taught my father German, and they communicated with each other. Talk in a foreign language. At this time, I always sit next to the adults and listen attentively. Although I don't understand anything, I like this atmosphere and participate in such gatherings."
In Yin Wenying's heart, her father He is "a man of great learning". "The subtle influence gradually formed an influence in my heart that can never be erased. It gave me a longing for science, a strong desire to explore the mysteries of nature, and determined to be a learned person!"
" To strengthen a country, we can only rely on science.”
Rewriting Chinese history from 0 to 1
was born in turmoil and grew up in war. When was young, she deeply planted the seed of thought that "the only way to strengthen the country is through science", which became the driving force for her perseverance and hard work throughout her life. Therefore, in Yin Wenying's scientific life, she always put the needs of the country first.
Back then, Yin Wenying, who graduated with a biology major, started working on the classification and identification of fish parasites. After the founding of New China, due to the development needs of freshwater fisheries, she resolutely devoted herself to experimental research on fish disease prevention and treatment.
She set up a fish disease workstation in Linghu, Zhejiang, the most important freshwater fish farming area in my country, and worked there for three or four years. Together with her colleagues, she found effective prevention and treatment methods for more than ten kinds of fish diseases, which were promoted nationwide by the aquatic products department, basically controlling serious diseases in my country's freshwater fish farming industry.
In 1963, 41-year-old Yin Wenying was transferred back to Shanghai. While waiting to accept a new job assignment, she accidentally discovered Protozoa in Tianmu Mountain. This type of slender insect with only 1 mm in length had no records in China at the time. Yin Wenying read relevant foreign materials and completed my country's first paper on protocercoids, "Two New Species of Protocerca Insects in China." In the next fifty years, she realized that there was a gap in the history of insect classification in my country, so she began to lead a team to measure the land with footprints and collect specimens, which greatly enriched the number of protozoan species in my country. realized the transformation of protozoa in my country from 0 to 1's breakthrough has put my country's protozoan research at the forefront of the world.
In the mid-1980s, the country proposed the grand goal of science serving production. Yin Wenying keenly discovered that the economic prosperity of most countries in the world at that time relied to a large extent on the maintenance of cultivated soil and its productivity, and soil biological resources were the "fertilizer factory" of cultivated soil and the "source of environmental pollution" Cleaner". So, she began to plan to carry out soil zoology research in China.
Yin Wenying, together with experts at home and abroad, initiated a large-scale and systematic soil zoology research in my country for the first time. In the following more than ten years, they conducted background surveys of soil animals in 7 different geographical regions in my country's temperate, subtropical and tropical regions, and compiled and published the "China Soil Animal Search Illustrated Book" containing more than 1,400 genera and 8 animal phyla. Five monographs have made great contributions to the establishment and in-depth development of soil zoology in my country.
In Yin Wenying, the patriotic spirit has always shone brightly.
This person has passed away, but his style will last forever!
Academician Yin Wenying, have a good trip!
News Square Comprehensive sources: China News Network, Center of Excellence for Molecular Plants of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Science Journal, Jiusan Society Shanghai Committee
