我国著名女科学家、教育家,第五届全国政治协商委员会委员,北京市第七届人民代表大会代表,中国植物学会副理事长,本学报常务编委,中国科学院植物研究所研究员、细胞研究室主任吴素萱教授,因患癌症,于1979年4月16日逝世,终年72岁。吴素萱教授是山东省益都县人。1930年毕业于中央大学,毕业后即从事细胞学的教学和研究工作。1937—1941年,在美国密西根大学深造,获博士学位。回国后,先后任西南联大、北京大学教授。1948—1949年,曾以英国文化委员会特约教授的身份,前往英国牛津大学、爱丁堡大学讲学并对有 China’s famous female scientist, educator, member of the Fifth National Committee for Political Consultative Conference, Beijing Municipal People’s Congress on behalf of the Seventh People’s Congress, Chinese Society of Botany, vice president, standing editor of the Journal, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Cell Research Laboratory Director Professor Wu Su Xuan, died of cancer on April 16, 1979, died at the age of 72. Prof. Wu Su Xuan is a native of Yidu County, Shandong Province. In 1930 graduated from the Central University, after graduation engaged in teaching and research cytology. From 1937 to 1941, he studied at the University of Michigan in the United States and obtained his doctorate. After returning home, he served as the Southwest Associated University, Peking University professor. From 1948 to 1949, he once went to the University of Oxford, University of Edinburgh for lectures and had