Feng Depei


Feng Depei or Te-Pei Feng was a Chinese neuroscientist and physiologist. He is considered one of founders of modern Chinese neuroscience and physiology.

Biography

Feng was born on February 20, 1907, in Linhai County, Taizhou, Zhejiang, Great Qing.
In 1922, Feng entered Fudan University in Shanghai, initially studied literature. At Fudan, Feng was attracted by newly emerged psychology, so he transferred to the psychological department in 1923. In 1925, a new professor of physiology named Cai Qiao joined Fudan, and the department of biology was founded. Feng became interested in biosciences, especially physiology. In 1926, Feng graduated from the biological department of Fudan, and became a lecturer at the same department.
In 1927, because of the student movement at Fudan, the department of biology was dissociated, so Feng had to leave Fudan. Feng went to Beiping, worked and worked under Robert Lim at Peking Union Medical College. Feng did research on thyroid secretion, with Zhang Xijun. With Lim, Feng studied human gastric secretion.
In 1929, Feng won the Boxer Rebellion Indemnity Scholarship Program at Tsinghua University. Feng went to United States to continue his study. Feng studied at the University of Chicago, under Ralph W. Gerard. Feng did research on nerve metabolism, and graduated in 1930 from UChicago with MSc.
In 1930, Feng went to England, where he studied and did research in Cambridge and London. Feng obtained his PhD from the University College London, University of London in 1933, and his academic advisor was Archibald Hill. Feng subsequently worked at University of Cambridge and University of Oxford.
In 1933, recommended by Hill, Feng went to the United States again, and spent 1 year at the University of Pennsylvania, supported by the Eldridge Reeves Johnson Foundation for Medical Physics of UPenn.
In 1934, Feng returned to Beiping, and worked again at Peking Union Medical College as a professor. In 1941, due to World War 2, the PUMC was closed, and Feng went to Chongqing, the wartime capital of China. In 1943, Feng became the acting director of the Medical Research Institute of Academia Sinica. In 1945, invited by the British Council, Feng visited the United Kingdom. In 1947, Feng was a visiting scholar at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York City.
Feng was professor of physiology at the Shanghai Medical College, and the Director and later Honorary Director of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Physiology. Feng was Academician of Academia Sinica since 1948. Feng was President and later Honorary President of the Chinese Physiological Society. Feng was also Vice-President, and the Division Chair of Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Feng was a representative of the first, second, and third National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China. He had been a member of the National Standing Committee of the Chinese [People's Political Consultative Conference|People's Political Consultative Conference] of China from 1978 to his death.

Research

Feng's research includes

Honors

Autobiography

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Literature

  • Richard W. Tsien:
  • *Acta Physiologica Sinica, December 25, 2007, 59: 713–715.
  • *Remark: Feng was Tsien's mother's professor at the Peking Union Medical College in 1930s.
  • CHEN Gong :
  • *Acta Physiologica Sinica, December 25, 2007, 59: 716.
  • *Remark: Feng was Chen's academic mentor.
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