1913..9.23~1995.08.26
实验胚胎学家。山东莒南人。1935年毕业于山东大学生物系。1936年赴德国留学。1939年获哲学博士学位。中国科学院上海细胞生物学研究所研究员、名誉所长。研究成体组织器官对胚胎细胞诱导作用的专一性,以及诱导作用与胚胎区域性的相互关系,证明成体器官存在着性质不用的诱导因素,对胚胎诱导作用机制研究有重要的贡献;研究有尾类躯干后部及尾部的发育,指出这二者的形成是通过原肠期之后的形态建成运动;对两栖类胚胎的中胚层的分化及发育机制作了系统的研究;对无神经肢体的再生与正常幼虫没有区别;在国际上首次以无神经幼虫为模型,发现两栖类胚胎的表皮的细胞是可兴奋的,并且具有传播兴奋的能力。
1980年当选为中国科学院院士(学部委员)。
Experiment embryologist. Born in Junan, Shandong Province. Graduated from the Department of Biology, Shandong University in 1935. Studied in Germany in 1936 and received Dr. rer.nat. in 1939 and Dr. rer. nat. habil. In 1945. Professor and honorary director, Shanghai Institute of Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Zhuang studied the inductive specificity of adult tissues and organs on early embryonic cells and the correlation between induction and regionality of the host embryos and showed that adult organs contain different inductive factors. This was an important contribution to the study on the mechanism embryonic induction. He studied the development of the posterior trunk and the tail of urodelian amphibian and pointed out that these two parts are formed by morphogenetic movements after gastrula stage. He systematically investigated the differentiation and development of the mesoderm of urodelian embryos. In the study of nerveless amphibian larvae, he proved that the limb regeneration of nerveless larvae has no difference with that of the normal larvae. With the nerveless larvae grafted in telobiosis it was found that the larval epidermal cells are excitable and possess the ability to transmit impulse from cell to cell.
He was elected Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980.