Huang Jiqing (; 30 March 1904 – 22 March 1995), also known by his courtesy name Huang Degan (; Te-Kan Huang), was a Chinese geologist. He was born March 30, 1904, in Renshou, Sichuan to an intellectual family. In 1928 he obtained his bachelor's degree at

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, and in 1935 he got his PhD at University of Neuchâtel, Swiss. After returning to China he taught at National Central University and Peking University, and served as director of the National Geological Survey, president of the Geological Society of China, director of the Southwest Geological Bureau, deputy director of the Academic Division of Earth Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, deputy president of the

Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences The Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences (CAGS; ) is an institution that engages in geoscience research in the People's Republic of China. The academy was established in 1956 and reorganized in 1999. Administratively it is under the PRC Ministry ...

. In 1980 Huang received an honorary doctorate from the

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, and in 1985 he was elected as an honorary member of Geological Society of America. In 1932 Huang published ''The Permian Formations of Southern China'', which provided the method to subdivide the Permian in China. In 1945 he pioneered to use the theory of polycyclic tectonic movement to treat the geotectonic characteristics of China. The first geotectonic map of China was also compiled under his supervision, for which he won a

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in 1982. Asteroid

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, discovered by the

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in 2009, was named in his memory. The official was published by the

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in September 2021.

References

External links

Huang Jiqing. encyclopedia.com.
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