劉建康

1917.09.01～

魚類學家、生態學家。江蘇吳江人。1938年畢業于蘇州東吳大學理學院生物系，獲理學學士學位。1947年獲加拿大蒙特利爾麥吉爾大學哲學博士學位。中國科學院水生生物研究所研究員。40年代開始魚類學研究工作，對鱔魚性別逆轉現象進行了詳盡研究。1944年發表的《鱔魚的始原雌雄同體現象》一文引起國際動物學界的關注。1949年后，著重開展魚類生態學、湖沼學的研究工作，調查、研究、總結了中國傳統養魚的豐富經驗。武昌東湖漁業穩產、高產和水體生物生產力的研究，使東湖漁業生產獲得高速度發展，從理論與實踐上為發展中國淡水漁業及淡水生態學做出了貢獻。

1980年當選為中國科學院院士（學部委員）。

Ichthyologist and ecologist. Born in Wujiang, Jiangsu Province. Graduated and received BS from the Department of Biology, College of Science, Soochow University in 1938 and Ph.D. from McGill University, Canada in 1947. Research professor, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Science.

Liu began to study ichthyology in the 1940s. He made an exhaustive study on sex reversal in Monopterus. His paper “Rudimentary Hermaphroditism in the Synbranchoid Eel” published in 1944 attracted close attention from international zoological circles. He has researched mainly on fish ecology and limnology since 1949. He investigated, studied and summarized the plentiful experience of Chinese traditional fish culture. His research on sustainable high fishery yield in Lake Donghu, and the biological productivity of water bodies brought rapid increase in fishery productin. He has made contributions to the development of Chinese fresh-water fishery and freshwater ecology both in theory and practice.

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