Personal experience
1894 1 was born in Jintan county, Jiangsu province.
1924 graduated from Nanjing Higher Education School and stayed as a teaching assistant.
1926, Department of Psychology, Columbia University, USA.
1927 to 1934, studied at the College of Literature, University of London, UK, and obtained a doctorate in statistics and anthropology.
1934- 1935 is engaged in research at the School of Anthropology, Chuleshu University, Switzerland.
1935- 1942, researcher, institute of history and language, academia sinica, director of anthropology group.
1942 to 1945 served as the director of the preparatory office of the institute of anthropology of academia sinica.
1946 ——1947 Professor, Department of History and Geography, Zhejiang University.
1946 ——1948 concurrently serves as a professor in the anthropology department of Jinan university.
1947 to 1952 served as the head of the anthropology department and director of the anthropology research institute of Zhejiang university.
1952 ——1969 Professor of Biology Department of Fudan University and Director of Anthropology Teaching and Research Group.
1969 died on March 24th.
Wu, 1893 1 was born in a landlord family in Jintan County, Jiangsu Province. My father is a famous local Chinese medicine practitioner, who is good at throat. She gave birth to two children and three women, Wu, ranking fifth. She lost her mother when she was young. Stepmother is not virtuous, she is not allowed to go to school, and she is kept at home to help with housework. Later, with his father's efforts, he was able to learn Chinese in a private school and find others to supplement his English and arithmetic, so as to train him to inherit his career and become a Chinese medicine practitioner. 12 years old, his father died. Stepmother is even worse, and she has to live independently from home. He has been diligent and studious since childhood, and his hard childhood and adolescence without maternal love have developed his spirit of hard work and hard work.
19 16 Wu was admitted to the Fifth Normal University of Yangzhou Province, Jiangsu Province with the same academic qualifications, and graduated from 1920. In the same year, he was admitted to the Department of Educational Psychology of Nanjing Normal University (later renamed Southeast University). 1924 stayed in school as a teaching assistant after graduation. 1926, Jiangsu Province recruited overseas students with two official expenses: "rural education" and "educational administration" 1, and he won the quota of "rural education". In August of the same year, I went to the Psychology Department of Columbia University in new york to study statistics. The following year, he transferred to the College of Literature, University of London, and continued to study statistics under the guidance of Karl Pear-Son, a famous British statistician and anthropologist. During my study, I published many papers on statistics, such as "Correlation Rate Significance Lookup Table". His down-to-earth and rigorous style of study and hard-working spirit won the praise of his mentor and colleagues. 1928 received a doctorate in statistics. 1930 Wu became the first member of "International Statistical Institute" in China, which was introduced by British statistician Professor Ou Yule and voted by all academic members in the Netherlands. In the same year, I attended the annual meeting in Poland.
1929, the first Peking man's skull fossil was found in Zhoukoudian, Beijing, and the British Times reported it with a headline, which made Wu, who was working in the "Biometrics and Eugenics Experimental Museum" presided over by Professor Pearson at that time, very excited and proud, and deeply regretted that the treasures of his country should be studied by foreigners, which made him determined to study anthropology. He applied for a research grant from the Board of Directors of China Education and Culture Fund, and stayed in the UK to study anthropology with Professor Pearson, becoming the first international student studying anthropology in China. At that time, the Biometrics and Eugenics Experimental Museum was an international center for studying biology and anthropology. In the famous Bio-metrika magazine, the Journal of Philosophy of the Royal Society and the Journal of Philosophy of Cambridge University, Wu cooperated with his tutor Pearson, or with the famous anthropologist G.M. Morant, or published more than 50 papers on statistics and anthropology alone, and obtained a doctorate in anthropology. From 65438 to 0934, J.L. Myess, a professor of anthropology at Oxford University, introduced him to join the International Anthropology Society and attended the annual meeting held in London in the same year. Because Switzerland has a large number of skull specimens, in the summer of 1934, Wu went to Chuleshu University in Switzerland to study Egyptian skulls in the 9th century.
1in the summer of 935, Wu returned to China. At the invitation of Cai Yuanpei, President of Academia Sinica, he served as the director and full-time researcher of Anthropology Group of Institute of History and Linguistics of Academia Sinica. In the same year, she married Ms. Shi Jiuzhuang, who just graduated from the Biology Department of Nanjing Central University, and stayed in school as a teaching assistant. With the great ambition of establishing and developing anthropology in China, under the difficult conditions of poor equipment and few assistants, Wu has been rushing around in ethnic minority areas all the year round to carry out physical surveys, and at the same time actively started to set up the Institute of Physical Anthropology as the director of the preparatory office of the Institute of Physical Anthropology. During his work in Academia Sinica, Wu published more than 65,438+00 papers on physical anthropology, and founded and edited the Anthology of Anthropology, which laid the foundation for the development of physical anthropology in China.
1945 after War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory, Wu was invited by Zhu Kezhen, president of Zhejiang University, to be a professor in the Department of Historical Geography, offering general anthropology and statistics courses. With his efforts, Zhejiang University established the Department of Anthropology and the Institute of Anthropology in September, 1947, and he served as the department head and director. 1946 to 1 1948. He is also a professor in the Department of Anthropology of Jinan University. He trained the first batch of researchers and teachers of physical anthropology for China. 1948 was elected as an academician of academia sinica.
1950 In May, Wu, Lu Yudao, Ouyang Yong and others initiated the organization of the Chinese Anthropology Society in Hangzhou, and he was elected as a director.
During the period of 1952, the departments of colleges and universities in China were adjusted, and the anthropology departments of Zhejiang University and Jinan University were merged into the biology department of Fudan University. Wu is the director of the Anthropology Teaching and Research Section, offering courses on human anatomy for all students. 1957, department of biology establishes structural anthropology. The 1950s was a bumper harvest period for Wu's anthropological research, which covered a wide range of aspects, including human evolution, modern people's physique, improvement of measuring instruments and so on, and began to explore new fields of ergonomics. While engaged in scientific research and teaching graduate students, he has undertaken the teaching tasks of many professional courses such as physical anthropology, paleoanthropology, human morphology and biostatistics.
Wu Yisheng scrimped and saved and worked hard. Although coronary heart disease was quite serious in his later years, he still refused to rest and continued to immerse himself in heavy teaching, scientific research and administrative work. 196 1 year, in order to solve the shortage of teachers in Shanghai Fisheries University, he generously promised to teach statistics regardless of his illness and overloaded workload. 1962, Wu finally broke down from overwork, suffered from a stroke, was completely paralyzed and was bedridden. However, he didn't rest on his deathbed. He also instructed graduate students, worried about the teaching and research work of the teaching and research group, and insisted on sorting out his own research materials.
During the "Cultural Revolution", Wu was besieged on his deathbed as a "reactionary academic authority". After several raids, all valuable books and articles at home were confiscated, and wages were suspended, leaving only a little "living expenses", which could not maintain the minimum living standard. Wu, who has always been indifferent to life, is indifferent to these blows.
1969, the Wu family was robbed again in the May 16th Movement. He watched helplessly as the collected papers (including all published and unpublished papers 100) and his computer, straight foot gauge, bending foot gauge and other scientific research tools were taken away, and he could not help crying in his hospital bed. That night, his illness became serious, and the next morning, that is,1March 24, 969, he passed away full of doubts and grief. After the "Cultural Revolution", a memorial service was held in June. 1979 rehabilitated Wu. The General Branch of Biology Department of Fudan University solemnly declared: "All slanderous remarks made on Wu () should be overthrown and his reputation restored".
During the Cultural Revolution, he was besieged on his sickbed, and books, essays and scientific research tools were robbed again in the inventory of1March 1969.1March 24, 1969 died in persecution.