我国著名寄生虫学家、厦门大学生命科学学院教授、原教育部寄生动物研究室主任林宇光先生因病医治无效,于2016年3月19日14时30分在福州逝世,享年92岁。林宇光教授生于1924年12月19日,福建省闽候县人。1944年从福州洋口英华中学高中毕业,同年考入内迁闽北山区邵武县由教会创办的福建协和大学,1948年毕业于协和大学生物系,1947年11月参加中共地下党。毕业后,他到福建省研究院动植物研究所内唐仲璋院士创建的 Mr. Lin Yuguang, a famous parasite researcher in Xiamen University and a professor in the School of Life Sciences at Xiamen University, and former director of the Parasite Research Office of the Ministry of Education, died at Fuzhou, at 19:30 on March 19, 2016, at the age of 92. Professor Lin Yuguang was born on December 19, 1924 in Minhou County, Fujian Province. He graduated from Fuzhou Yangkou Yinghua High School in 1944 and was admitted to Fujian Union University, founded by the church in Shaowu County, a mountainous region in northern Fujian Province. In 1948, he graduated from the Department of Biology of Peking Union University and joined the Chinese Communist underground party in November 1947. After graduation, he went to Institute of Animal and Plant Studies, Fujian Academy of Sciences, founded by Tang Zhongzhang