Deng Qidong (; January 1938 – 6 November 2018) was a

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geologist.

Biography

Deng was born in

Shuangfeng County Shuangfeng County () is a county in Hunan Province, China, it is under the administration of Loudi prefecture-level City. Located on the east central part of the province, it is adjacent to the southeast of the city proper of Loudi. The county i ...

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in 1938. After graduating from the

Central South University Central South University (CSU; ) is a national public university in Changsha, Hunan, China. The university is sponsored by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, China Ministry of Education. It is a Chinese state Double Fir ...

in 1961, he was assigned to the Institute of Geology,

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 Republ ...

. He joined the

Communist Party of China The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the CCP emerged victorious in the Chinese Civil ...

on 25 May 1961. From February 1978 to March 1998 he worked in 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 ...

, where he was appointed director of Graduate Degree Committee of Geological Research Institute. In 2003 he was elected a fellow of the

. He died of illness at Beijing 301 Hospital, in

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, on 6 November 2018.

Papers

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Awards

* 1978 Second Prize of the State Scientific and Technological Progress Award

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Deng, Qidong 1938 births 2018 deaths Central South University alumni 20th-century Chinese geologists Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences People from Shuangfeng County Scientists from Hunan