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Tong Tanjun (Chinese: 童坦君; pinyin: Tóng Tǎnjūn; 15 August 1934 – 25 December 2022) was a Chinese cytologist, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Biography

Tong was born in Cixi County (now Ci'xi), Zhejiang, on 15 August 1934. His father was an accountant and his mother is a housewife. He attended Shanghai Qingxin Primary School, Shanghai Yucai Middle School and Shanghai Guangshi High School. After high school, he studied, then taught, at what is now Peking University Health Science Centre, where he successively worked as lecturer (1978), associate professor (1985), and professor (1988).

In 1978, Tong became a visiting scholar at the National Institutes of Health and Johns Hopkins University. He returned to China in 1981 and continued to teach at the Peking University Health Science Centre. In 1986, he became a visiting scholar at the California State University and New York University, and returned to China in 1988. He joined the Jiusan Society in 1988.

On 25 December 2022, Tong died at the 3rd Hospital of Peking University at the age of 88 after failing to cure his accidental fall.

Honours and awards

2005 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)