Anna Chao Pai
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Anna Chao Pai (born 1935)[2] is an American geneticist and professor emerita at Montclair State University.[3]
Biography
Anna Chao was born in Beijing, China.[4] Her paternal grandfather was the Northeast China-based warlord Zhang Zuolin, who was assassinated in 1928.[4] Following the Japanese invasion of Northeast China in 1931, her parents fled the region, first to Beijing where she was born, and then to the United States. They would make only one more visit to China together as a family, in 1939, and after the Communists won the Chinese Civil War in 1949 her parents had no further desire to return to their country of birth.[4][5] (She herself would finally re-visit the country in 2005, accompanying her husband on a trip to Shenyang.)[1]
She enrolled at Sweet Briar College, where she earned freshman and Dean's List honors.[5] Working part-time as a waitress, she earned a degree in zoology at Sweet Briar.[5] She later earned a master's degree in embryology from Bryn Mawr College, and a Ph.D. in developmental genetics from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, and worked as a researcher and professor at Montclair State University in New Jersey, where she was known by the nickname "Chips".[5]
She later married David Pai (白先忠), a grandson of the National Revolutionary Army general Bai Chongxi, who had worked with her uncle Marshal Zhang Xueliang during the Kuomintang Northern Expedition.[1][6][7] In 2009 they moved to Davidson, North Carolina.[7]
She is the author of the genetics textbooks Foundations of Genetics: A Science for Society (McGraw-Hill 1974, ISBN 978-0070480933) and Genetics, Its Concepts and Implications (Prentice Hall 1981, ISBN 978-0133510072).
Awards and recognition
- Ten Outstanding Young Americans, 1965[5]
- Phi Beta Kappa Society, 1972[5]
- Sweet Briar College "Distinguished Alumna", 1994[5]
References
- 1 2 3 "白崇禧后人白先忠访问沈阳" [Bai Chongxi's descendant Bai Xianzhong (Pai Hsien-chung) visits Shenyang]. Overseas Chinese Net. 2005-08-05. Retrieved 2015-07-11.
- ↑ "Anna Chao Pai (b. 1935)". Smithsonian Institution Archives. Retrieved 2014-01-09.
- ↑ American Men and Women of Science. Gale. 2003. p. 109. ISBN 978-1414433004.
- 1 2 3 Laurent, Darrell (2008-05-11). "Sweet Briar speaker, grad have China links". Winston-Salem Journal. Retrieved 2014-01-09.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Anna "Chips" Pai ’57 to Speak at 99th Commencement". Sweet Briar College. 2008-02-15. Retrieved 2014-01-09.
- ↑ "'小诸葛'白崇禧有几个儿子" [The several sons of 'Little Zhuge' Bai Chongxi]. Shangdu News. 2014-12-17. Retrieved 2015-07-11.
- 1 2 "Chinese history lessons with the Pais, English Griggs’ Scout memories". DavidsonNews.net. 2010-04-08. Retrieved 2014-01-24.