| Zhai Zhonghe | |
| Native Name: | 翟中和 |
| Native Name Lang: | zh |
| Birth Date: | 18 August 1930 |
| Birth Place: | Liyang County, Jiangsu, China |
| Death Place: | Beijing, China |
| Fields: | Cell biology |
| Workplaces: | Peking University |
| Alma Mater: | Tsinghua University Saint Petersburg State University |
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Zhai Zhonghe (; 18 August 1930 – 10 February 2023) was a Chinese cell biologist, and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was a member of the Chinese Communist Party.[1]
Zhai was born in Liyang County (now Liyang), Jiangsu, on 18 August 1930.[2] His mother died when he was 8, and he was raised by his paternal grandmother.[3] He secondary studied at Jiangsu Provincial Liyang High School .[3] In 1950, he was admitted to Tsinghua University, where he majored in biology.[2] [3] A year later, he was sent to study at the University of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg State University) on government scholarships.[2] [3]
Zhai returned to China in 1956 and that same year became a professor at the Department of Biology, Peking University.[2] [3] In 1959, he pursued advanced studies at the Institute of Biophysics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.[3] He returned to China in 1961 and continued to teach at Peking University.[3] In 1969, during the Cultural Revolution, he was sent to the May Seventh Cadre Schools to do farm work in the suburb of Nanchang, Jiangxi, and returned to Peking University in 1973.[3] He was a visiting scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1985 to 1986, studying nuclear skeleton and its relationship with gene expression under the supervision of S. Penman.[3]
Zhai died in Beijing on 10 February 2023, at the age of 92.[2] [1]