Dong Wang (1906 ——1957)
Dong Wang was born in Nanpu Town. He likes agriculture since he was a child. After graduating from high school, he went to Nantong Senior Agricultural Middle School and then went to Nantong Agricultural University to study. At that time, Zhang Jian, an industrialist in Nantong, was the principal, and influenced by him, Wang came up with the idea of "saving the country through industry".
From 65438 to 0927, Dong Wang graduated from Nantong Agricultural University with the first place and stayed as a teacher. 1929 was introduced to Shanghai and worked in the State Customs Tariff Commission, responsible for the revision of import and export taxes on agricultural products. From 65438 to 0935, he went to Jiangsu, Anhui, Shandong, Hebei, Chad, Sui and other places to investigate agricultural products. 1937, China and Britain were admitted to the University of Edinburgh at their own expense, majoring in animal husbandry. 1940 received his doctorate, and then worked as an intern in Cambridge, Lei Ting, Abedin and other universities, studying animal husbandry, especially feeding, nutrition and pasture.
194 1 year, Wang returned to China and taught in Guizhou College, Northwest Agricultural College and Agricultural College of Central University. During the period of 1942- 1946, forage science was established in Shaanxi Wugong Northwest Agricultural College. 1947 concurrently serves as a special researcher and head of the nutrition department of the Central Animal Husbandry Laboratory.
Dong Wang witnessed the deep suffering of the nation and the dark corruption of reactionary politics. Every time he talked about it, he was filled with indignation and furious. On the eve of Nanjing liberation, a few people planned to move Central University to Taiwan, but he strongly opposed it.
After liberation, Dong Wang taught at Nanjing University. From 65438 to 0952, he became a professor in the Department of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine of Nanjing Agricultural College, and concurrently served as the head of the department the following year. While devoting himself to teaching and scientific research, he studied politics hard and took an active part in social activities. 65438-0950, joined the Jiu San Society, attended the first national congress of natural science workers, and participated in the preparatory work of China Agricultural Society and Nanjing Branch of China Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Association. 1954 was elected as the representative of the first people's congress of Jiangsu province. 1956, joined the China * * * production party.
Dong Wang has made great achievements in feed science, animal nutrition and livestock breeding. He has studied grasslands for 30 years and has traveled all over Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and Tibet. He has written more than ten books, including Animal Nutrition, General Theory of Materia Medica, Theory and Practice of Grass-field Rotation System, Grassland Management, Various Theories of Materia Medica and Overview of Livestock Breeding, with more than 2 million words. He is rigorous in his scholarship, dares to question in scientific research, innovates and develops, advocates mastery through a comprehensive study, and has original ideas. At the beginning of liberation, he pointed out the disadvantages of the current feeding standards in Europe and America, put forward a unique view based on metabolic heat energy, and founded the king feeding standard.
Dong Wang is generous and sincere, humble and courteous, with a wide range of interests and profound knowledge, and he has also studied China literature and calligraphy. After suffering from melanoma, Dong Wang still insisted on writing, optimistic and open-minded. 1957 died in Shanghai on May 5th at the age of 5 1.