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Chen-Lu Tsou was born on 17 May, 1923 in Qingdao, Shandong, Republic of China, is a Chinese biochemist (1923–2006). Discover Chen-Lu Tsou's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 83 years old?

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Age 83 years old
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Born 17 May, 1923
Birthday 17 May
Birthplace Qingdao, Shandong, Republic of China
Date of death 23 November, 2006
Died Place Beijing, People's Republic of China
Nationality China

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1923

Zou Chenglu (17 May 1923 – 23 November 2006), better known as Chen-Lu Tsou, was a Chinese biochemist.

He was a professor of the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and later a professor and Deputy Director of the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

He made important contributions to the synthesis of insulin, and was elected an academician of the CAS and The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS).

Tsou was born on 17 May 1923 in Qingdao, Shandong province, with his ancestral home in Wuxi, Jiangsu.

During the Second Sino-Japanese War, he sought refuge in Kunming in China's interior and studied chemistry at the National Southwestern Associated University.

1945

After graduation in 1945, he briefly served in the army during World War II.

After the war, Tsou was awarded a government scholarship to study in England, initially bound for the University of Birmingham.

On the recommendation of Wang Yinglai, he was accepted by the University of Cambridge to study under David Keilin at the Molteno Institute for Research in Parasitology.

Tsou's doctoral thesis was on the properties of the haemprotein cytochrome c.

According to Edward Slater, the research was the first step towards the eventual discovery of protein's structure.

1948

In 1948, Tsou married Li Lin (Anna Tsou), a fellow Chinese student at the Department of Metallurgy of Cambridge.

Li was the daughter of the renowned geologist Li Siguang, who was in England to preside over their wedding, and she would become a prominent physicist.

Tsou later recalled the Cambridge years as the best time for his family.

1950

Their daughter, geologist Zou Zongping (邹宗平), was born in the 1950s in China.

Li Lin was also elected as an academician of the CAS, making the Li-Tsou family the only one in China that produced three academicians (including Li Siguang).

Despite suffering from cancer in old age, Tsou continued to work until his death.

1951

After he and his wife both acquired their Ph.D. degrees in 1951, they returned to the newly established People's Republic of China and Tsou became a research professor at the Shanghai Institute of Physiology and Biochemistry where Wang Yinglai served as a deputy director.

1958

After 1958, Tsou was a member of the team at the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry that first achieved the total chemical synthesis of insulin in 1965.

His major contribution to the project was to form the disulphate bridges by joining two synthetic polypeptides using oxidation.

His method for estimating the number of essential amino acid residues in an enzyme by chemical modification, in which the remaining activity is plotted against the number of residues modified is known as the Tsou plot.

1970

In 1970, Tsou moved to Beijing to help look after his ailing father-in-law Li Siguang, and transferred to the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

It was in the midst of the Cultural Revolution, when scientific activity was frozen in the anti-intellectual political atmosphere.

1972

When American biochemist Emil L. Smith, a fellow alumnus of the Molteno Institute, visited Tsou following Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China, Tsou used reagent bottles filled with water to maintain a pretence of scientific research.

1980

After the end of the Cultural Revolution, Tsou was able to resume his research and was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980.

1981

In 1981, he was awarded the State Natural Science Award, First Class, for this achievement.

1990

In 1990, his autobiography was published in Comprehensive Biochemistry Volume 27.

By the end of his career, he won the State Natural Science Award First Class three times and Second Class three times.

Asteroid 325812 Zouchenglu, discovered by astronomers with the PMO NEO Survey Program at the Purple Mountain Observatory in 2008, was named in his memory.

1992

He won the TWAS Prize in Biology in 1992 for his pioneering study of enzyme inhibition kinetics, and was a six-time laureate of the State Natural Science Award (three times each for First Class and Second Class).

His wife, physicist Li Lin, was also an academician of the CAS.

Tsou was a strong advocate against academic fraud and pseudoscience, and led a public campaign against what he called "unhealthy practices" such as administrators' interference in scientific research.

He pioneered the study of enzyme inhibition kinetics, for which he was awarded the TWAS Prize in Biology in 1992.

Despite losing an entire decade of his prime, he published at least 118 papers, mostly in international journals.

2006

He died in Beijing on 23 November 2006, at the age of 83.

2020

The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 9 January 2020 (M.P.C. 120070).

Tsou was a strong advocate against academic fraud and pseudoscience, and led a public campaign against what he called "unhealthy practices" such as administrators' interference in scientific research.

At the Institute of Biophysics, Tsou raised objections to Director Bei Shizhang's display of his achievement in cell formation.

The criticism poisoned his relationship with Bei, making Tsou feel "uneasy" at the institute.

Scientist Rao Yi later raised the same objections and praised Tsou's probity.