Zeng Chengkui Tseng

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• Zeng Chengkui Tseng
• Leading Chinese Phycologist
• Born 1909
• Early Education at Xiamen Lingnan
• Chinas First Practicing Phycologist
• 1st Paper was on Economically Important Algae

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Education in USA

• University of Michigan
• Scripps Institute of Oceanography
• USDA and agar during WWII
• Gelidium
• Kelco Inc. and Giant Kelp
• Phycological Society of America 1946

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• Laminaria (Kelp)
• Artificial Substrate
• Sporophyte germination competitors and
  greenhouse alternatives
• Fertilizing the ocean
• Adapting to new climates
• Massive Workshop to
• teach the masses

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• Barriers To Good Science
• Communism, Mao
• Red Guard, Cultural Revolution
• Torture, Kill, Isolate, Re-educate and Re-assign
  Scientists
• Tseng, Tortured, Isolated and called a traitor

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• Life After Communism
• Travels the World and Meets President Ford
• Catches up on Phycology outside of Chine
• Appointed Director of Institute of Oceanography
  in Qingdao
• 1985 Tseng elected as member of the Third World
  Academy of Science
• Tseng continued his research in the 1990s and
  advocated the farming and ranching of the sea