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Li Jieshou
Native Name:黎介寿
Native Name Lang:zh
Birth Date:13 September 1924
Birth Place:Liuyang County, Hunan, China
Death Place:Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Fields:Surgery
Workplaces:Jinling Hospital affiliated to Nanjing University Medical School
Alma Mater:Nanchang Medical College
Spouse:Cheng Yingshi
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Li Jieshou (; 13 September 1924 – 30 January 2023) was a Chinese surgeon, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Biography

Li was born in Liuyang County (now Liuyang), Hunan, on 13 September 1924, to Li Putang, a teacher, and Zhou Xia, a housewife.[1] He was the second of five children.[1] Both his elder brother Li Ao and younger brother Li Leishi were also academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.[1] His family moved to Shanghai in 1931, where he studied at Pushi Road Primary School . In 1933, his father was transferred to Nanjing, and Li attended Youfu West Street Primary School . A year later, his father was transferred again to Hangzhou, until his death in 1937, the year the Lugouqiao Incident broke out. After his father died, Li studied at Guangyi Middle School in his home-city Changsha. At the end of the year, due to the impact of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Li's family moved several times in Hunan, passing through Changsha, Anhua County, Loudi, Changning and other places. In April 1941, he returned to Guangyi Middle School with his younger brother. In 1943, he was admitted to National Zhongzheng Medical College (renamed Nanchang Medical College in 1949), where he majored in clinical medicine. After graduating in 1949, he became a resident surgeon of Nanjing Central Hospital.

After founding of the Communist State, in June 1950, Li became a surgeon of the East China Military Region Hospital.

In 1951, Li was chosen as deputy captain of the Second Operating Team of the Nanjing Counter-American and Aid Korea Volunteer Medical Corps, and came to the rear hospital in Changchun, to treat the wounded transported from the Korean battlefield.

Li returned to the East China Military Region Hospital in June 1953. He enlisted in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in April 1963.

In May 1966 during the Cultural Revolution, Li was dismissed from the post of deputy director of the First Department of Foreign Affairs and became a general surgeon. In October 1968, he was labeled as a "reactionary academic authority" and was sent to do farm works in a village in Anhui.

After the Cultural Revolution, in December 1978, Li became director of the Second Department of Surgery of the General Hospital of the Nanjing Military Region. He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in March 1979. He rose to become vice president of the General Hospital of the Nanjing Military Region in September 1983. In September 1993, he was employed as vice president of the Clinical School of Nanjing University Medical School.

In 2014, the asteroid with the international number of 192178 which was first discovered internationally by the Zijinshan Observatory in March 2007, was officially named "Li Jieshou Asteroid".[2]

On 30 January 2023, Li died of an illness in Nanjing, Jiangsu, at the age of 98.[3]

Personal life

Li married Cheng Yingshi in August 1954.[1]

Honours and awards

Notes and References

  1. News: Tian Wu (Chinese: 天吾) . https://news.sciencenet.cn/htmlnews/2014/8/302293.shtm . zh:中国医学界黎氏三兄弟:各领风骚铸传奇 . sciencenet.cn . 29 August 2014 . 1 February 2023 . zh.
  2. News: Yang Chen (Chinese: 杨晨) . Gao Minghua (Chinese: 杨晨) . https://www.chinanews.com.cn/mil/2014/04-25/6108416.shtml . zh:中国军队院士黎介寿获得永久性小行星命名 . chinanews.com.cn . 25 April 2014 . 1 February 2023 . zh.
  3. News: Zhong Yuhao (Chinese: 钟煜豪) . https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_21741595 . zh:著名外科专家黎介寿院士逝世,“一门三院士”缔造传奇 . thepaper . 31 January 2023 . 1 February 2023 . zh.
  4. News: Yang Yuchen (Chinese: 杨王晨). Wang Weidong (Chinese: 汪卫东) . http://www.81.cn/lqbz/2019-05/28/content_9515862.htm . zh:重磅!东部战区总医院黎介寿院士被中央军委授予胜利功勋荣誉章 . 81.cn . 28 May 2019 . 1 February 2023 . zh.