Ren Mei'e (; 1913–2008) was a Chinese

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and coastal scientist, educator and professor, who was the main founder for the study of many related subjects in modern China.

Biography

Ren was born in

Zhenhai Zhenhai is a district and former county of the sub-provincial city of Ningbo in Zhejiang Province in eastern China. It has a population of 200,000. History The town of Zhenhai grew up at the foot of Zhaobao Hill on a tongue of land at the mo ...

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Zhejiang Zhejiang ( or , ; , also romanized as Chekiang) is an eastern, coastal province of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Hangzhou, and other notable cities include Ningbo and Wenzhou. Zhejiang is bordered by Jiang ...

, China on 8 September 1913. In 1934 Ren graduated from the Department of Geology of National Central University (now

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). In 1939 Ren received his doctorate from the

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. Ren was a professor of

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, Fudan University and later

. He was the head of the Department of Geography (now School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences), Nanjing University. Ren was selected to be an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980.

Academic positions

* Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences (1980 election) * President, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGLAS, formally known as the Geographic Institute of China) * Honorary President, Chinese Society for Oceanography * President and later Honorary President, Chinese Geographical Society

Honors and awards

Ren received the Victoria Medal from the

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of London in 1986.

External links

The Holeung Ho Lee Foundation - Ren Mei-E

China Vitae - Ren Meie

China Vitae - brief biography of Ren Meie
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ren, Meie 1913 births 2008 deaths Academics of the University of Glasgow 20th-century Chinese geologists Chinese geomorphologists Academic staff of Fudan University Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Nanjing University alumni Academic staff of Nanjing University Scientists from Ningbo Victoria Medal recipients Academic staff of Zhejiang University