Hung-Chang Yin
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Director Emeritus of the Institute of Plant Physiology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai, Hung Chang Yin was a leading authority in photosynthesis and one of the principal agricultural-research policymakers in China. He is credited , along with a handful of colleagues , with the great increase in food production in China during the 1970s and 1980s. After finishing his doctorate at Caltech in plant physiology and genetics, Dr. Yin continued his research here as a postdoctoral fellow, publishing some of the first definitive articles on the existence of circadian rhythms in plants. He returned to his native China in 1938, serving as professor at the National Southwestern University in Kunming and also as senior research member at the Agricultural Institute of the National Tsing Hua University, conducting research there on plant hormones. Dr. Yin was named an Exchange Professor by the British Council and spent 1944-45 at Cambridge. Two years as a professor of biology at the National Peking University were followed by a three-year appointment as Field Science Officer at UNESCO's South Asian Science Cooperation Office in New Delhi, India. Dr. Yin passed away in 1992.
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