邓叔群1902.12.12～1970.05.10

微生物学家。福建福州人。1923年清华学堂毕业后，公费留学美国，在康乃尔大学获植物病理学博士和森林学硕士学位。中国科学院微生物研究所研究员、副所长。早期从事林业、植物病理学研究工作。运用生态学观点研究中国早期林业史、造林与管理、洪坝森林等问题；对半边莲的丝核菌病、水稻黑穗病、棉粮作物主要病害及其它经济作物病害防治研究均取得成就；尤其是专长于真菌学研究，发现新种120个，新属4个，已为国际上公认，并被列入英国真菌研究所编写的《真菌学字典》；还对蘑菇识别、食用菌的营养价值、毒蘑类型、中毒症状、解毒方法有系统的阐述，为粘菌和真菌分类作出了贡献。

1955年被选聘为中国科学院院士（学部委员）。

Microbiologist. Born in Fuzhou, Fujian Province. Graduated from Tsinghua School in 1923. Received Ph.D. in plant pathology and MS in forest science from Cornell University. Professor and deputy director,Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Acasemy of Sciences.

Deng worked on forestry and plant pathology in his early career.He applied ideas to the study on the early Chinese forestry history,reforestation and management, and flood dam forests. He made great successes in the prevention of the fungal disease caused by mitoscleromycetes in the Chinese lobelia, and in the control of rice smut and many other diseases of cereals, cotton and other economic crops. He had special expertise in the field of mycology. The 120 new species and 4 new genera that he descrobed scientifically have been accepted in the world and was included in the “Mycology of the Fungi” compiled by the Institute of Fungus, England. He made great contributions to the identification of mushrooms, the nutrition value of edible fungi, the types of toadstools, and the symptoms of mushroon intoxication and method for detoxification. He also contributed to the taxonomy of slime molds and fungi.

He became Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1955.