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Chinese geneticist Tan Jiazhen dies at 100
2/11/2008 11:47

THE remarkable Chinese geneticist Tan Jiazhen died of illness at 7:18am yesterday, at the age of 100, in Shanghai East China Hospital.

Tan, founder of China's genetics, was member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and foreign associate of United States National Academy of Sciences.