1932 graduated from Yangzhou Middle School and was admitted to Shanghai Datong University in the same year. When the nation was in peril after the September 18th Incident, he began to take part in the revolutionary activities led by the * * * production party in China, and assisted Hu Qiaomu and Tao Zhu successively. Because of the persecution of the reactionary authorities and the need of work, I studied in Shandong University and Jinling University, so I extended my studies. I graduated from Jinling University with a bachelor's degree 194 1. After graduation, I stayed in school as a teaching assistant, engaged in tobacco diseases and rice breeding with rice blast resistance.
From 1942, I studied for a master's degree in the graduate school of Jinling University, engaged in fungal physiology research, and obtained a master's degree from 1944. After graduation, he transferred to Mingxian Agricultural College as a lecturer, teaching plant pathology, plant physiology and microbiology.
From 65438 to 0946, he went to Sichuan University to teach plant pathology, and in the autumn of the same year, he went to Peking University Agricultural College as a lecturer to teach plant pathology and plant disease prevention and control principles.
After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), in June 5438+February of that year, Beijing Agricultural University was established, and Michelle Chen was an associate professor in the Department of Plant Protection, offering courses on general plant pathology, agricultural plant pathology, etc. for college students of this department and foreign departments, and carrying out a lot of research work at the same time.
1957- 1960, Michelle Chen went to the former institute of plant pathology in the GDR as a visiting scholar. During this period, he also conducted short-term visits and research in Harley University and other units in the former Federal Republic of Germany.
196 1 After returning to China in the spring of, he succeeded Lin as the director of the teaching and research section of general plant pathology, enrolled graduate students and engaged in teacher training.
During the "Cultural Revolution", he was physically and mentally exhausted and was afflicted with diseases, but he still overcame many difficulties with tenacious perseverance and completed the translation of the book Occurrence and Prevention of Plant Diseases compiled by the American Academy of Sciences.
65438-0979 presided over the establishment of a laboratory for biological control of plant diseases, served as the director of the laboratory, and later succeeded as the director of the Institute of Plant Ecological Engineering.
Michelle Chen was praised by his peers for his profound knowledge, creative work and profound dialectical analysis ability. He has served as the chairman of Beijing Botanical Pathology Society and North China Botanical Pathology Society, and the vice chairman and secretary general of China Botanical Pathology Society.
He won 7 ministerial-level scientific and technological progress awards and patent award 1 item, and 1983 was awarded as an excellent teacher in key agricultural colleges directly under the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries.