Famous People with Name Jingyi

Le Jingyi            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Le Jingyi: a former swimmer from China who won the gold medal in the 100 metres freestyle at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.In 1992, Le won the silver medal in the 4x100 metres freestyle relay (3:40.12) at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, and also finished 6th in the 100 m free (55.89). In 1993 she defeated her teammate, Olympic champion Zhuang Yong, to become national champion in the 100 m free (54.72, 2nd globally after Franziska van Almsick). In December 1993, she won 4 golds, all in world record times, at the 1st ever World Short Course Championships in Spain (50 m free: 24.23; 100 m free: 53.01; 4×100 m free relay: 3:35.97 and 4×100 m medlay reply: 3:57.73).

Niu Jingyi            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Niu Jingyi: was a Chinese biochemist. He was born on December 26, 1920 in Xinghua, Jiangsu. In 1942, he graduated from the chemistry department of the National Southwestern Associated University. He served as an instructor of Tsinghua University from 1946 to 1948. In 1948 he went to America to study biochemistry at the University of Texas, five years later commenced doctor degree. In 1956 he came back to China. His main research field is natural organic chemistry, containing the structure analysis and chemical synthesis of the protein polypeptides. In 1953 he finished his doctoral dissertation titled the microelement nutrition of the escherichia coli at US.