Revered liver surgery pioneer Wu Mengchao dies at 99 By ZHANG ZHIHAO | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-05-23 17:00 Undated file photo shows a portrait of Wu Mengchao. [Photo/Xinhua]
Wu Mengchao, the revered liver surgeon who pioneered the field in China and drastically improved the country s surgical success rate for liver cancer, passed away in Shanghai due to illness on Saturday at the age of 99.
In 1991, Wu was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2005, he became the first physician to receive the State Preeminent Science and Technology Award, China s highest academic accolade, for raising the success rate of hepatic surgery for liver cancer patients in China from 16 percent to over 98 percent.
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Telescopes are the most recognizable tool in the astronomer’s toolkit, but equally important are the tools for recording astronomical data. In the 19th century, they included glass photographic plates, which captured snapshots of the night sky through the telescope, and notebooks for recording observations and measurements from the plates.
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