今年12月19日是英国学者李约瑟博士(JosephNeedham)的八十岁生日.李约瑟博士是中国人民的朋友,对中国科学作出过多种贡献. 李约瑟博士早年专攻生物化学,在剑桥大学任教,是英国皇家学会会员.他对胚胎发育问题的研究有杰出成就,先后出版了《化学胚胎学》、《生化与形态发生学》、《胚胎学史》等几部名著. December 19 this year is the 80th birthday of the British scholar Joseph Needham, a friend of the Chinese people who made a number of contributions to Chinese science. Dr. Joseph Needham, who specialized in biochemistry in his early years and taught at the University of Cambridge, A member of the Royal Society, who had outstanding achievements in the research of embryonic development and published several famous works such as “Chemistry Embryology”, “Biochemistry and Morphology” and “History of Embryology”.