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About Wen-Pei Fang
- Fang Wen-Pei (???) (1899-1983), was a Chinese botanist, an expert on rhododendrons and on the Maple Family.
- He worked in the Institute of Botany, at the Chinese Academy of Sciences after graduating from Southeast University in Nanjing, China.
- Fang furthered his study at the University of Edinburgh in 1934 and received his PhD in 1937.
- In the same year, he returned to China and became a biology professor at Sichuan University till his death. In his lifelong research, he identified more than 100 new species of plants in which he named more than 40, publishing 8 monographs and over 50 papers.
- He was honored as "one of the most distinguished Chinese botanists".
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