1913..9.23～1995.08.26

實驗胚胎學家。山東莒南人。1935年畢業(yè)于山東大學生物系。1936年赴德國留學。1939年獲哲學博士學位。中國科學院上海細胞生物學研究所研究員、名譽所長。研究成體組織器官對胚胎細胞誘導作用的專一性，以及誘導作用與胚胎區(qū)域性的相互關系，證明成體器官存在著性質不用的誘導因素，對胚胎誘導作用機制研究有重要的貢獻；研究有尾類軀干后部及尾部的發(fā)育，指出這二者的形成是通過原腸期之后的形態(tài)建成運動；對兩棲類胚胎的中胚層的分化及發(fā)育機制作了系統(tǒng)的研究；對無神經肢體的再生與正常幼蟲沒有區(qū)別；在國際上首次以無神經幼蟲為模型，發(fā)現兩棲類胚胎的表皮的細胞是可興奮的，并且具有傳播興奮的能力。

1980年當選為中國科學院院士（學部委員）。

Experiment embryologist. Born in Junan, Shandong Province. Graduated from the Department of Biology, Shandong University in 1935. Studied in Germany in 1936 and received Dr. rer.nat. in 1939 and Dr. rer. nat. habil. In 1945. Professor and honorary director, Shanghai Institute of Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Zhuang studied the inductive specificity of adult tissues and organs on early embryonic cells and the correlation between induction and regionality of the host embryos and showed that adult organs contain different inductive factors. This was an important contribution to the study on the mechanism embryonic induction. He studied the development of the posterior trunk and the tail of urodelian amphibian and pointed out that these two parts are formed by morphogenetic movements after gastrula stage. He systematically investigated the differentiation and development of the mesoderm of urodelian embryos. In the study of nerveless amphibian larvae, he proved that the limb regeneration of nerveless larvae has no difference with that of the normal larvae. With the nerveless larvae grafted in telobiosis it was found that the larval epidermal cells are excitable and possess the ability to transmit impulse from cell to cell.

He was elected Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980.