Cheng-chao Liu

Cheng-chao Liu is a herpetologist Chinese, born the August 12th 1900 with Tai' year and dead the April 9th 1976 with Chengdu.

It is graduate at the university of Beijing in 1929 when it studies near the biologist Alice Middleton Boring (1883-1955). He teaches at the university of the North-East with Shenyang. Its library and its collections are destroyed at the time of the war between China and Japan in 1931. From 1932 to 1934, he studies with the Université Cornell where he makes a thesis under the direction of Albert Hazen Wright (1820-1970).

Of return in China, he teaches at the university of Suzhou. In 1939, it leaves to Chengdu. In 1950, it takes the head of the department of biology of the Université of Yenching. In 1951, it turns over to Chengdu to direct the medical school there.

It is interested in the Chinese Amphibians on which it makes appear 55 articles. Influential pedagog, it forms many futures herpetologists. He is at the origin of the most important collection of reptiles and Amphibians of the country.

Source

Kraig Adler (1989). Contributions to the History off Herpetology, Society for the study off amphibians and reptiles: 202 p.

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