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Dr. C. C.Tan(Jia-Zhen Tan)is a world-renowned Geneticist and one of the founders of modern genetics in China.He is an outstanding scientist and educator.Born in Zhejiang Province in 1909,he did
Dr. C. C. Tan （Jia-Zhen Tan） is a world-renowned Geneticist and one of the founders of modern genetics in China. He is an outstanding scientist and educator. Born in Zhejiang Province in 1909, he did his undergraduate work at Soochow University, and then did graduate work at Yenching University in Peking. Later Tan was invited to CalTech for Ph.D. work. During this process, Tan was assigned the task of making a cytological map of the chromosomes of D. pseudoobscura. He quickly became an expert and soon found that races A and B, as they were then called, differed by a large number of easily recognized inversions. Tan also pioneered in studying the genetic basis of sexual isolation. This work, and much more, was summarized in the book Genetics and the Origin of Species, which became an instant classic. Some experts thought it was the greatest thing since Darwin.
