Wang Pinxian (; born 14 November 1936 in

Suzhou Suzhou is a major prefecture-level city in southern Jiangsu province, China. As part of the Yangtze Delta megalopolis, it is a major economic center and focal point of trade and commerce. Founded in 514 BC, Suzhou rapidly grew in size by the ...

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marine geologist Marine geology or geological oceanography is the study of the history and structure of the ocean floor. It involves geophysical, geochemical, sedimentological and paleontological investigations of the ocean floor and coastal zone. Marine geolo ...

. He is an academician of the

Chinese Academy of Sciences The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS; ) is the national academy for natural sciences and the highest consultancy for science and technology of the People's Republic of China. It is the world's largest research organization, with 106 research i ...

Biography

Wang obtained his degree in

geology Geology (). is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical objects, the rocks of which they are composed, and the processes by which they change over time. Modern geology significantly overlaps all other Earth ...

from

Moscow State University Moscow State University (MSU), officially M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University,. is a public university, public research university in Moscow, Russia. The university includes 15 research institutes, 43 faculties, more than 300 departments, a ...

of the

Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

in 1960, and taught at East China Normal University in Shanghai afterwards. In 1972, when the Marine Geology department of East China Normal University merged into Tongji University, Wang was transferred to Tongji. He was elected a member of the

(CAS) in 1991. He was vice president of the International Scientific Committee for Ocean Research (SCOR), 1994–1998. He has served as vice chairman of the Division of Earth Sciences of CAS, president of the Chinese Committee on Ocean Research and vice president of Oceanological and Limnological Society of China. He has been engaged in research on marine micropaleontology and evolution of its environmental pattern for decades and has made creative contributions to the development of marine geology in China. He started the research on the burial of microfossils in China and has developed the research on paleoceanography considerably. He was awarded a number of prizes including the National Natural Science Prize and the Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize. His research entitled Distribution of Calcareous Microfossils in the China Seas and its Paleenvironmental Significance won the first prize for the Advancement of Science and Technology awarded by the former State Education Commission and the fourth place for the National Natural Science Award. His research on Dynamic Progression and Development Trend of the Evolution of Environment in the last 150,000 years in Drought and Semi-drought Areas won the first prize for the Advancement of Science and Technology awarded by Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Science in 1998. In 2007, he was awarded the Milutin Milankovic Medal by the European Geosciences Union.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wang, Pinxian 1936 births Living people 20th-century Chinese geologists Academic staff of the East China Normal University Educators from Suzhou Marine geologists Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Moscow State University alumni Scientists from Suzhou Academic staff of Tongji University