Xu Jinghua, an internationally renowned scientist in Europe, was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province on June 28th, 1929. His ancestral home is Xucun, Shexian County, Anhui Province. Won the highest honor in world geosciences, Twenhofel Urastan Medal.
1944 was admitted to the Department of Geology of Nanjing University, 1948 graduated with a bachelor's degree in July. In the same year, he went to study in the United States and graduated in July with a bachelor's degree 1948.
1967, moved to Switzerland and taught at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. He is an academician of the National Academy of Sciences, the Mediterranean Academy of Sciences and the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. He has made great achievements in geology, oceanography, geophysics and environmental science.
He used to be the president of the International Sedimentary Society, the President of the International Marine Geological Committee and the President of the European Geophysical Society. As a scientist, Mr Xu Jinghua dabbles in a wide range. As a writer, his works include popular science works, autobiographies and novels, covering natural science, philosophy and history, social life, eastern and western cultures and many other aspects. In addition to academic achievements, popular science works are also popular all over the world.
Chinese name: Xu Jinghua.
Ethnic group: Han nationality
Place of birth: Nanjing, Jiangsu
Date of birth:1June 28th, 929
Occupation: scientist
Graduate school: Nanjing University
Main achievements: Academician of the National Academy of Sciences.
Academician of Mediterranean Academy of Sciences
Academician of Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Won the Twenhofel Urastan Medal, the highest honor in geoscience in the world.
Representative works: The Great Extinction-Looking for a Disappearing Era, and The Ancient Sea Desert-A Great Discovery in the History of Science.
Ancestral home: Xu Cun, Shexian County, Anhui Province
brief introduction
Xu Jinghua (1929-06-28), Han nationality, from Xucun, Shexian County, Anhui Province, and Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, is a famous scientist, geologist, scholar and writer.
all one's life
1929 was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province on June 28th, and usually lives in Switzerland. 1944 graduated from the senior high school affiliated to National Central University, and was admitted to the Geology Department of National Central University (1949 was renamed Nanjing University). 1948 graduated with a bachelor's degree. In the same year, he went to study in the United States. 1950 received a master's degree from Ohio State University, and 1953 received a doctorate from UCLA. From 1954, he joined Shell Oil Company in the United States for research work, and from 1963 to 1967, he taught at new york State University and University of California. /kloc-moved to Switzerland from 0/967, taught at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and served as president of the Earth Academy and director of the Institute of Geology.
He used to be the chairman of the International Sedimentary Society, the chairman of the International Marine Geology Committee and the first chairman of the European Geophysical Association. Elected as an academician of the National Academy of Sciences, the Mediterranean Academy of Sciences and the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. 1984 was awarded the Twenhofel Urastan Medal, the highest honor in the world geoscience. He has also won two other honors awarded by the international geological community: the Wollaston Medal (1984), the highest honor awarded by the British Geological Society, and the Penrose Penrose Medal (200 1) awarded by the American Geological Society. In 2002, he won the Academic Achievement Award of Century Alumni of Nanjing University.
He once spent a third of his time in China, the United States and Europe. At the peak of his scientific career, Mr Xu Jinghua hopes to return to his motherland to do some work. In June, 2004, 65438+ 101was hired as a senior professor of Nanjing University to offer the course "History of Modern Science Development".
On September, 2007 1 1, the Research Center for Environment and Health Engineering of Henan University was established, with Xu Jinghua as the director and Qin Mingzhou as the executive director. Academician Xu said that he would actively promote the participation of Oxford University in the UK and Johns Hopkins University in the United States in the preparation of the center.
In 2008, Xu Jinghua became a doctoral supervisor of environmental geography in Henan University. In 2009, it began to recruit doctoral students in the direction of "surface chemical element migration and human health".
school achievement
There are in-depth research and innovative achievements in sedimentology and geotectonics.
1970 put forward the amazing discovery that "the Mediterranean turned out to be a desert", and in the 1980s, it threw out the theory that comets hit the earth and led to the extinction of dinosaurs, which caused a sensation in international academic circles.
1986, Xu Jinghua put forward the "catastrophe theory" of the earth's evolution history in his book The Great Extinction, which refuted Darwin's theory of evolution. He believes that the large-scale extinction of dinosaurs and their animals and plants at the same time is caused by environmental changes caused by comets hitting the earth and acid rain. Not only did he think that the theory of evolution had no scientific basis, but he also said that it combined Malthus' population theory, which provided the so-called basis for the bloody expansion of capitalism in the19th century and further evolved into the theory that the strong oppressed the weak. To this end, he has debated with biologists in Cambridge, Chicago, Zurich and other places many times, thus winning the title of "Xu Xuanfeng" and "Xu Daxia" and winning the praise of the world. The Great Extinction was once listed as one of the most influential books on human civilization by a British Nobel Prize winner.
Main popular science works:
The Great Extinction-Looking for a Disappearing Era (any translation)
Ancient Ocean Desert —— A Great Discovery in the History of Science (Zhu)
Fighting the Sea —— Revolutionary History of Earth Science (translated by He Qixiang)
Autobiography Loneliness and Pursuit-My Youth (translated by Tang, published by Life, Reading and Knowledge Joint Publishing Company in September 2003)
Application result
There are many important application results in the fields of metal resources, petroleum resources and water resources.
Other research results
He studied China's traditional medicine, and once gave a speech at Cambridge University in England, "Looking for a Language in InSearchofaCommonLanguage, Homosexuality between Modern Physics and Traditional Chinese Medicine".
He studied the philosophy of life and gave a speech on "What is life: from Laozi and Zhu to Schrodinger, Feynman and Mandel Broth" at the forum of world famous scientists of Nanjing University in China.
He studied music and wrote The Death of Mozart. Together with his second son Andrew, he finished some articles on fractal geometry of music.
In addition, he has many other experiences, such as participating in the design of the Olympic greening project and publishing articles on the aviation history of China.
family status
Xu Jinghua's mother is a traditional China woman. His father, Xu, was the chairman of the Yellow River Conservancy Commission of the National Government and the president of Henan University. Mrs. Susan Milan, musician. The eldest daughter Elizabeth, a historian of traditional Chinese medicine. The eldest son Martin is an architect. The second son Andrew, a musician. The youngest son Peter is a lawyer.