Wen Lianxing (; born April 1968) is a Chinese seismologist and geophysicist. He is a professor at Stony Brook University and the

University of Science and Technology of China A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, the ...

. He was awarded the James B. Macelwane Medal in 2003 and elected a fellow of the

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Biography

Wen was born in

Shanghang Shanghang (; hak, Sông-hông-yen) is a county in southwest Fujian Province, China, bordering Guangdong Province to the southwest. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Longyan. Transportation Part of Shanghang County i ...

Fujian Fujian (; alternately romanized as Fukien or Hokkien) is a province on the southeastern coast of China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its cap ...

, China in 1968. He graduated from Shanghang No. 1 High School and was admitted to the

(USTC) in 1983. After graduating in 1988, he studied at the Institute of Geophysics of the

Chinese Academy of Sciences The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); ), known by Academia Sinica in English until the 1980s, is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for natural sciences. It has historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Republi ...

, and earned his master's degree in 1991. He later studied in the United States and earned his Ph.D. in geophysics in 1998. From 1998 to 2000 Wen was a research fellow at the

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in Washington, DC. He has been a faculty member at the Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook University since 2000. In 2010, he became a professor at USTC, while retaining his position at Stony Brook. In 2003, he received the James B. Macelwane Medal from the

(AGU) and was elected a fellow of AGU. He is the first Chinese scientist to win the medal, often called the "Nobel Prize" of geological sciences. In 2018, Wen's team at USTC concluded that

Mount Mantap Mantapsan (or Mount Mant'ap, Chosŏn'gŭl: ) is a mountain in the south of North Hamgyong Province in North Korea. The granite peak, which reaches an elevation of , is part of the Hamgyong Mountains. It is located on the border between Kilju Coun ...

at North Korea's

Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site () was the only known nuclear test site of North Korea. Nuclear tests were conducted at the site in October 2006, May 2009, February 2013, January 2016, September 2016, and September 2017. Geography The s ...

collapsed after its nuclear weapon testing in September 2017. A similar conclusion was independently reached by the team of Liu Junqing of the

China Earthquake Administration The China Earthquake Administration (CEA), () is mandated by the ''Law of the People's Republic of China on Protecting Against and Mitigating Earthquake Disasters of PRC'' to enforce the earthquake administration in the nation under the administrati ...

Major publications

* Wen, L. and Long, H., High-precision location of North Korea's 2009 nuclear test, Seism. Res. Lett., 81 (1), 26-29, 2010. * Wen, L., Localized temporal change of the Earth's inner core boundary, ''Science'', 314. no. 5801, pp. 967 – 970, , 2006. * Niu, F. and Wen, L., Hemispherical variations in seismic velocity at the top of the Earth's inner-core, ''Nature'', 410, 1081–1084, 2001. * Wen, L., Silver, P., James, D. and Kuehnel, R., Seismic evidence for a thermo-chemical boundary layer at the base of the Earth's mantle, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 189, 141-153, 2001. * Wen, L. and Helmberger, D.V., Ultra-low velocity zones near the core-mantle boundary from broadband PKP precursors, ''Science'', 279, 1701–1703, 1998. * Helmberger, D.V., Wen, L. and Ding, X., Seismic evidence that the source of the Iceland hotspot lies at the core-mantle boundary, ''Nature'', 396, 251-255, 1998.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wen, Lianxing 1968 births Living people Chinese seismologists Fellows of the American Geophysical Union Chinese expatriates in the United States University of Science and Technology of China alumni California Institute of Technology alumni Stony Brook University faculty Academic staff of the University of Science and Technology of China Physicists from Fujian People from Longyan Educators from Fujian