"MEET @ Scientist" Teamed Up with Various Science Popularization Venues to Launch Wonderful Educational Activities

"Meet @ Scientist", as a brand education activity of Shanghai Science & Technology Museum, selects every month an outstanding scientist born in that month for the scientist-themed month activities. Recently, the Shanghai Science & Technology Museum freed up this brand activity and carried out inter-museum exchanges and science popularization education activities together with Shanghai Zoo, Shanghai Meteorological Museum and other science popularization venues in order to vigorously carry forward the scientist spirits and create a new national trend of science enthusiasm and admiration. 

April 9, 2023 was the 137th birthday of Bing Zhi, a famous zoologist in China and the main founder of modern biology. On that day, the activity was held in Shanghai Zoo, and invited Wang Tianhou, an ecology professor of East China Normal University, and Yang Yi, a master of animal science popularization, to pay tribute to the scientist spirits of saving the country and serving the country by science together with 30 spectators born on April 9. 

Wang Tianhou introduced the scientific purpose, significance and methods of bird migration research and showed the infinite charm of science and the knowledge-seeking spirit of researchers. He hoped that everyone would have the problem-oriented consciousness and bravely conduct questioning, assumption, observation and verification to integrate science into life. Yang Yi introduced animals with "dragon" in their names as well as many interesting dinosaur fossils and important scientific research achievements, and revealed the biological relationship between these ancient overloads on earth and current birds. 

The commentator of Shanghai Zoo led the audiences to visit the amphibian and reptile hall to experience the charm of Chinese endemic species "Bing Zhi pachytriton" (scientific name: Pachytriton granulosus) named in memory of Bing Zhi. In the characteristic DIY session, the audiences incarnated as animal keepers and built their own "fingertip" zoos personally. 

The theme scientist in February is Ye Duzheng, the founder of modern meteorology in China, who was born on February 21, 1916. As the activity was held in Shanghai Meteorological Museum, the audiences were led to understand the life of this meteorologist through science popularization lectures, master showing you around and characteristic DIY. The theme scientist in March is He Zehui, a first-generation nuclear physicist in China, born on March 5, 1914. That day was also the International Women's Day on March 8. Shen Hao, professor of nuclear science and technology, Fudan University, and Meng Yue, associate professor of the Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics, Shanghai Jiaotong University, were invited to send scientist messages and birthday wishes to the audiences and send flowers prepared to the female audiences.