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Yuan Longping was a Chinese agronomist, botanist and inventor who specialised in rice research, born 袁隆平 with ancestral roots in De'an County. Educated at the Southwest University of Science and Technology, he worked at Hunan Agricultural University and lived in Changsha, becoming a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences. He received the State Preeminent Science and Technology Award, the Ramon Magsaysay Award, the Confucius Peace Prize and the World Food Prize, and had three children.
Yuan died of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome on 22 May 2021.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1930
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Za jiao shui dao shi zen yang yu cheng de
- Chao ji za jiao dao yan jiu
- Yuan Longping lun wen ji =
- Yuan Longping kou shu zi zhuan
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- China
- Active from
- 1930
- Active to
- 2021
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 1
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China
· 2020 · cited 36,631x
- RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 25,516x
- Clinical course and risk factors for mortality of adult inpatients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective cohort study
· 2020 · cited 21,451x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,776x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,955x
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Key facts
- Chairman
- Liu Zheng → Liu Fusheng → Wang Keying → Hu Biao → Chen Qiufa
- Born
- ( 1930-09-07 ) September 7, 1930, Peking Union Medical College Hospital , Beijing , China
- Died
- May 22, 2021 (2021-05-22) (aged 90), Xiangya Hospital , Changsha , Hunan , China
- Spouse
- Deng Ze ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1964 – 2021 )
- Education
- High School Affiliated to Nanjing Normal University
- Alma mater
- Southwest Agricultural College
- Occupation
- Inventor
- Profession
- Agronomist
- Known for
- Hybrid rice
- Awards
- State Preeminent Science and Technology Award (2001), Wolf Prize in Agriculture (2004), World Food Prize (2004), Confucius Peace Prize (2012), Order of the Republic (2019)
- Simplified chinese
- 袁隆平
- Traditional chinese
- 袁隆平
- Hanyu pinyin
- Yuán Lóngpíng
- Wade giles
- Yuan Lung-p'ing
- Ipa
- [ɥɛ ̌ n lʊ ̌ ŋ pʰi ̌ ŋ]
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Yuan
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- China
- Place of birth
- Peking Union Medical College Hospital
- Occupation
- agronomist
- Employer
- Hunan Agricultural University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- Chinese
- Field of work
- rice
- Image
- Yuan Longping at news conference (cropped).png
- Number of children
- 3
- Residence
- Changsha
Show 11 more facts
- date of birth
- 1929-07-09
- member of
- National Academy of Sciences
- Commons category
- Yuan Longping
- start of work period
- 1960-00-00
- birth name
- 袁隆平
- ancestral home
- De'an County
- date of death
- 2021-05-22
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- multiple organ dysfunction syndrome
- name in native language
- 袁隆平
- P10632
- Yuan Longping
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Encyclopedic overview
Yuan Longping (Chinese: 袁隆平; pinyin: Yuán Lóngpíng; September 7, 1930 – May 22, 2021) was a Chinese agronomist and inventor. He was a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering known for developing the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s, part of the Green Revolution in agriculture. For his contributions, Yuan is known as the "Father of Hybrid Rice". Yuan was bestowed the Medal of the Republic, the highest honorary medal of the People's Republic of China, in September 2019.
Hybrid rice has since been grown in dozens of countries in Africa, America, and Asia—boosting food security and providing a robust food source in areas with a high risk of famine. The technology allowed China to sustain 20% of the global population on 9% of global arable land, an achievement in food security for which he was awarded the 2004 World Food Prize and the 2004 Wolf Prize in Agriculture respectively.
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