Tang Feifan

Tang Feifan
湯飛凡
Tang Feifan in 1944 in Kunming, Yunnan.
Born
Tang Ruizhao (湯瑞昭)

(1897-07-23)July 23, 1897
DiedSeptember 30, 1958(1958-09-30) (aged 61)
Beijing, China
Alma materChengnan School
Xiangya College of Medicine
Yale University
Peking Union Medical College
Harvard University
Known forChlamydia trachomatis
Spouse
He Lian
(m. 1925; died 1958)
Scientific career
FieldsMedical microbiology
InstitutionsCentral Epidemic Prevention Laboratory
Doctoral advisorHans Zinsser

Tang Feifan (simplified Chinese: 汤飞凡; traditional Chinese: 湯飛凡; pinyin: Tāng Fēifán; July 23, 1897 – September 30, 1958) was a Chinese medical microbiologist best known for culturing the Chlamydia trachomatis agent in the yolk sacs of eggs.

Tang was persecuted during the "Pulling Out Bourgeois White Flag Movement" and committed suicide in 1958.