{{Short description|Chinese mycologist (1902–1970)}} {{more citations needed|date=April 2017}} {{Infobox person |name = Shu Chun Teng |image= 鄧叔群.jpg |image_size= 200px |birth_date= 12 December 1902 |birth_place= Fuzhou, Fujian |death_date= 1 May 1970 |occupation= Mycology |alma_mater = Cornell University<br/>Tsinghua University }} {{Infobox Chinese |t=鄧叔群 |s=邓叔群 |p=Dèng Shūqún |w=Teng<sup>4</sup> Shu<sup>1</sup>ch'ün<sup>2</sup> }}
'''Shu Chun Teng''' ({{lang-zh|c=鄧叔群|p=Dèng Shūqún}}, 12 December 1902 – 1 May 1970), also abbreviated as '''S. C. Teng''', was a Chinese mycologist.<ref>{{cite book | first1 = Lawrence R. | last1 = Sullivan | first2 = Nancy Y. | last2 = Liu | title = Historical Dictionary of Science and Technology in Modern China | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=DGCGBwAAQBAJ | pages = 124–125 | series = Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East | year = 2015 | publisher = Rowman & Littlefield | place = Lanham, Maryland | ISBN = 978-0-8108-7854-9 | name-list-style = amp}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title = 30 Years' Review of China's Science and Technology (1949 – 1979) | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=LbLHHB1Vo6QC | page = 278 | year = 1982 | publisher = World Scientific | place = Singapore | ISBN = 978-9971-950-48-4}}</ref>
==Early life== Born in Min County of Fuzhou, Teng graduated from Tsinghua University in 1923.
He went on to continue his studies in America in 1923, obtaining a master's degree in forestry from Cornell University in 1926. But he discontinued his PhD studies at Cornell University in 1928, taking up the position as professor of plant pathology at Lingnan University (Guangzhou) in China.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dangan.njau.edu.cn/info/1021/1491.htm|publisher=dangan.njau.cn|title=邓叔群}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Lu|first=Di|date=2025|title=Carving Out a Niche for Chinese Fungi: Specimens and War in Sino-US Scientific Interaction, 1920s-1940s|journal=Journal of the History of Collections|volume=37|issue=2|pages=311–328|doi=10.1093/jhc/fhaf010}}</ref>
==Occupation and work== In 1945 he went to Shanghai and set up the Forest Exological Research Centre. Since 1949, he served as assistant director and vice president of Shenyang Agricultural University, and then in 1955 he served in the same previously stated post in Northeast Agricultural College. He was a researcher and deputy director of the Institute of Microbiology of Chinese Academy of Sciences since 1955, member of the Department of Biology in the Chinese Academy of Sciences.<ref name="huaxia">{{cite web|url=http://search.huaxia.com/s.jsp?iDocId=487855|archive-url=https://archive.today/20151028200358/http://search.huaxia.com/s.jsp?iDocId=487855|url-status=dead|archive-date=2015-10-28|publisher=search.huaxia.com|title=華夏經緯網站 華夏人物庫 鄧叔群|accessdate=2017-04-14}}</ref>
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