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Zeng Chengkui Tseng Leading Chinese Phycologist Born 1909 Early Education at Xiamen & Lingnan

Zeng Chengkui Tseng Leading Chinese Phycologist Born 1909 Early Education at Xiamen & Lingnan China’s First Practicing Phycologist 1 st Paper was on Economically Important Algae. Education in USA. University of Michigan Scripps Institute of Oceanography USDA and agar during WWII

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Zeng Chengkui Tseng Leading Chinese Phycologist Born 1909 Early Education at Xiamen & Lingnan

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  1. Zeng Chengkui Tseng Leading Chinese Phycologist Born 1909 Early Education at Xiamen & Lingnan China’s First Practicing Phycologist 1st Paper was on Economically Important Algae

  2. Education in USA • University of Michigan • Scripps Institute of Oceanography • USDA and agar during WWII • Gelidium • Kelco Inc. and Giant Kelp • Phycological Society of America 1946

  3. Laminaria (Kelp) • Artificial Substrate • Sporophyte germination competitors and greenhouse alternatives • Fertilizing the ocean • Adapting to new climates • Massive Workshop to • teach the masses

  4. Barriers To Good Science • Communism, Mao • Red Guard, Cultural Revolution • Torture, Kill, Isolate, Re-educate and Re-assign Scientists • Tseng, Tortured, Isolated and called a traitor

  5. Life After Communism • Travels the World and Meets President Ford • Catches up on Phycology outside of Chine • Appointed Director of Institute of Oceanography in Qingdao • 1985 Tseng elected as member of the Third World Academy of Science • Tseng continued his research in the 1990s and advocated the “farming and ranching of the sea”

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