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Deng Xuquan (鄧叔群), (12 December 1902－1 May 1970) was a notable Chinese scientist, mircobiologist and educator.
Early life
Born in Min County of Fuzhou, Deng Xuquan was graduated from Tsinghua University in 1923.
He went on to continue his studies in America, returning to China with a master's degree he had obatained at Cornell University in 1928.
Occuptaion and work
In 1945 he went to Shanghai and set up the Forest Exological Research Centre. Since 1949, he has served as assistant director and vice president of Shenyang Agricultural University, and then in 1955 he served in the same previously stated post in Northeast Agricultural College. He has been a researcher and deputy director of the Institute of Microbiology of Chinese Academy of Sciences since 1955, member of the Department of Biology in the Chinese Academy of Sciences.