蔡翘先生多年来任中国生理科学会的理事长,致力于中国生理科学事业的发展,在生理学上的贡献是人所共知的。但是很少有人知道,蔡老还是一位杰出的神经解剖学家。国际神经解剖学界为了纪念他在神经解剖学上的贡献,将脑内的一个结构用他的名字来命名。他的名字便永远记录在科学史册上了。远在60多年前,蔡先生还是一个二十几岁的青年,在美国芝加哥大学读书。那时著名的比较神经学家C.Judson Herrick教授有一个庞大的研究计划,想对一种美洲袋鼠叫做Opposum的动物的脑,进行全面的深入的研究。作为这个研究计划的一部分,Herrick教授把研究Opposum视束及视觉中枢的任务交给了蔡 Mr. Cai Qiao has served as chairman of the Chinese Society of Physiological Sciences for many years and devoted himself to the development of Chinese physiology and science. Its contribution in physiology is well known. But few people know that Cai Lao is still an outstanding neuroanatomist. To commemorate his contribution to neuroanatomy, the International Neurosurgical Society names a structure in the brain with his name. His name will always be recorded in the history of science. Far more than 60 years ago, Mr. Tsai was still a twentieth-century youth studying at the University of Chicago in the United States. At that time, Professor C. Judson Herrick, a famous comparative neuroscientist, had a huge research project to conduct a comprehensive and in-depth study on the brain of an American kangaroo named Opposum. As part of this research project, Professor Herrick handed over the task of studying the Opposum optic tract and visual center to Cai