Entomologist.
As early as the 1960s, he first put forward the evolutionary classification and disambiguation classification theory of "space-time unification" in China, and redefined the higher-order taxonomic groups of insects. In the past 60 years, Professor Zhou Yao has published more than 200 papers and monographs on insect taxonomy. 23 new suborders, 45 new families and 2 new families were established, and more than 420 new species and 26 new genera were discovered.
As early as in college, he founded three entomological publications, such as Interesting Insects and China Journal of Entomology. From 65438 to 0979, he founded and edited the international academic journal Journal of Insect Classification, and hired 26 authoritative scholars from China, Britain, the United States, Italy, Denmark and Japan as the editorial board.
It has been 23 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the number of published papers on entomology classification is four times that of similar newspapers in China since the founding of the People's Republic of China. It has established long-term exchange relations with more than 300 sci-tech periodicals in more than 0/00 countries and regions around the world, and the annual exchange of foreign language materials is worth about 20,000 US dollars, which provides rich materials for domestic experts, scholars and graduate students to carry out scientific research.
In addition to great achievements in his career, Professor Zhou Yao likes literature, painting, calligraphy, stamp collecting, martial arts and even hunting. When he was young, he also studied Chinese medicine, law, carpentry, casting and locksmith. Later, he learned typesetting, printing and editing, and set up his own printing factory. He is proficient in Italian, Esperanto, English and many other foreign languages. He once said with deep feelings that it is hard to imagine whether he could gallop in the kingdom of insect research and achieve such great achievements without these hobbies.