"Father and Daughter Double Academician" Rooted in Parasite Research

Tang Zhongxuan (left) talks to his daughter a month before her death.(third from left) tutors graduate students at home.Worked in the Field Laboratory of the Korqin Prairie in Inner Mongolia.
if I wake up and find myself young and fresh out of school, I'll choose parasite science as my life's work. Even if I had another life, I would have chosen the cause.Not long ago, Tang Chongyi, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, donated 1 million yuan to Xiamen University to establish the Tang Zhongxuan Life Sciences Education Fund to commemorate the 115th anniversary of the birth of his biological father, Tang Zhongxuan, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
a well-known parasitologist and biologist in China, Tang Chongyi's daily life is simple, but it does not "save" in scientific research and personnel training.for Tang Chongxuan, who was born into a family of parasitic diseases, behind the four words "female father", is a moving story that has been passed on as a good word.
her father, Tang Zhongxuan, is a famous biologist, parasite scientist and biology educator in China, and a pioneer of parasite science in China. Tang Zhongxuan, who became an orphan at the age of 12, made a lifetime of hard work in the field of parasitic pathogen biology and epidemiology of human, economic animals and animals through half-time study, and made outstanding contributions to the establishment and development of the basic theory of parasitic pest control and parasite science in China, as well as to the training of parasite science.
Tang Chongyi ear-to-ear infection, as early as the university age, followed his father deep into the schistosomiasis area, silkworm disease area to do a lot of hard, detailed research and prevention work.
her direction and ambition, under the influence of her father, clear and firm.
1954, after graduating from the Department of Biology of Xiamen University, Tang Chongyi was assigned to work in the Department of Biology of East China Normal University in Shanghai, where he became an assistant to zhang Zuoman, a famous zoologist, to assist in scientific research and guide the experimental work of graduate students. In 1957, Tang Chongxuan transferred to Fujian Normal College and became his father's assistant. Under the influence of her father's knowledge and style of study, she grew up rapidly.
in the 1950s, a 1950s human rat with Siribury's ticks spread widely around Fuzhou, and even eight-month-old babies with simple recipes suffered. Tang Chongyi and her father concerned about this matter, sleep difficult, determined to do some efforts for this. During a house visit, she found that the baby had been on the ground to eat cat rice, cat rice has an ant, most likely the host of aphid disease.
after sampling, testing, dissecting and observing the wasteland, Tang Chongyi finally found the larvae of the parasite in the expected medium of communication. After keeping the larvae in a petri dish, the first thing Tang Chongyi did was go home and tell her father and "friends". Still eating father put down the chopsticks in his hands, the two returned to the laboratory, under the microscope constantly seeking proof, drawing, and finally succeeded.
is such a "band" and "fighting side by side", become a close bond between father and daughter, but also become their common memory of the good times.
the 1970s, father and daughter came to work at Xiamen University.
1980, Tang Zhongxuan was elected a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
11 years, Tang Chongyi was also elected a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
father and daughter to engage in parasitology research, and also as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, it is a good word. Under the careful education and cultivation of his father Tang Zhongxuan and his mother, Tang Chongxuan's son also became a scholar engaged in parasite research. The three generations of grandchildren conquered the subject and published papers, which also became a beautiful talk.
, Tang Zhongxuan has left, and the clock that fixed the time of his father's death has become Tang Chongxuan's eternal memory of his father. the past of following his father's teaching and scientific research, Tang Chongyi's eyes became more and more soft.
she said fondly: "My father often told me that teaching and scientific research should complement each other, scientific research is to explore the truth of the laws of nature, teaching is to spread the truth." My father's deep scientific research, love to live like a son, his words and deeds affected my life. In
, the conditions were tough. Tang Chongyi with a simple microscope and anatomical equipment, footprints throughout the parasite disease epidemic in the poor countryside. From the coast of the East China Sea, Jiangnan Water Township to daxing Anling outside the north and south, Inner Mongolia prairie, from Qinghai Plateau to Tianshan Ranch and Ili River, from Shanxi Loess Plateau, Hunan Dongting Lake, Jiangxi Poyang Lake to the Yellow River in Shandong Province, this unyielding "woman" measured the land with footsteps, and even by the graduate students under the door nicknamed "scientific research migratory birds."
Field investigation and laboratory artificial infection experiments complement each other, one side of the hall, a stage, put on a microscope, is the mobile laboratory; "To the laboratory as a home, home as a laboratory", Tang Chongyi in scientific research infatuation and wisdom, thanks to his father, practice in their own body, praised in the industry.
" young people are strong in China, the hope of our country is still in the young people. Tang Chongyi often said that he likes to be called "Mr. Tang". She passed on the spirit of scientific research and family circumstances inherited from her father to her students.
to find areas of interest, conduct independent research topics, field surveys, independent completion of graduation papers ... Tang Chongyi's students under the burden, under Mr. Tang's unique scientific research training, quickly transformed into independent thinking, practical innovation and the growth of the transformation.
, Tang Chongyi has trained a number of professionals and injected new strength into the development of parasite science in China. The Parasite Research Office of the Ministry of Education, which she chairs, has also become an important base for the training of parasites in China, and has become a well-known research institution at home and abroad. science knows no borders, but scientists have borders. "That's the same with Tang Chongyi.
turbulent years, even if the apostles four walls, the family suffered from suffering, father Tang Zhongxuan is still fighting hard, concentrate on the study of schistosomiasis. During the Anti-Japanese War, because of the Japanese invasion of Beijing, he did not want to work under the Japanese occupation, angrily left. While studying in the United States, he learned the good news of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and he decided to give up the opportunity to continue his studies and returned to the motherland through hardships.
under his preaching, in the decades of immersion, Tang Chongyi is also like his father in the field of the motherland needs to cover thorns, explore truth-seeking.
Every time we talk about why we do scientific research, Tang Chongyi's simple words are not without power: "China was indeed shrouded in the haze of parasitic diseases, we do scientific research not for the health of mankind, it will lose its meaning!" "
then, in an epidemic area with very poor sanitation, in the face of parasitic diseases, in poor scientific conditions, Tang Chongyi and her father chose to face up to the difficulties." She not only inherited her father's hard-fought scientific research style, ancestral dedication to the fight against disease, but also a dedication to the motherland's heart. Even in the face of the advanced experimental conditions and superior living environment of Western countries at that time, she was not moved, insisted on staying in Xiamen University to engage in teaching and scientific research, to do the motherland needs retrograde, pioneer! Zuo Zhenghong, party secretary of Xiamen University's School of Life Sciences, said.
In the eyes of Tang Zhongxuan and Tang Chongyi disciples, from Japanese schistosomiasis and Siribery's tick disease, which are more harmful to human health, to pancreatic pancreatic schistosomiasis and liver bi-cavity sucker disease, from the prevention and control of parasitic pests to the establishment of the basic theory of parasitics, father and daughter have solved one parasitic problem after another that endangers the health of the chinese people. Their national conditions and the spirit of scientists have also influenced a group of young students and science and technology workers to move forward.
" happy to meet the festival for several years, not called a good teacher worthy of flowers. Willing to make silt for the pottery, rugged road. ..." On the occasion of China's first Teacher's Day in 1985, Tang Zhongxuan wrote a poem called Teacher's Day, in which the lofty beliefs of dedication and selfless dedication are at a glance.
if I wake up and find myself young and fresh out of school, I'm going to choose parasite science as my life's work, " he says. Even if there is another life, I will choose this career! "I love research, not the identity behind it." Tang Chongyi said so more than once.