Born on October 27, 1912, in Tianjin, China, Ching Chun Li received his B.S. degree in agronomy from the University of Nanking in 1936 and a Ph.D. in plant breeding and genetics from Cornell University in 1940. After completing postgraduate work in mathematics, mathematical statistics and experimental statistics at the University of Chicago, Columbia University and North Carolina State University, 1940-1941, he served as President of the American Society of Human Genetics in 1960. His tenure at the University of Pittsburgh began in 1951 and served as Professor and Department Chairman, Biostatistics, from 1969 to 1975.
From the guide to the C. C. (Ching Chun) Li papers, Circa 1930s-2003, (American Philosophical Society)
