Huang Jiqing
Huang Jiqing (or Te-Kan Huang, Chinese: 黄 汲 清, March 30, 1904 in Renshou , Sichuan - 1995 ) was a Chinese geologist .
In 1928 he received his bachelor's degree from Peking University and his doctorate in 1935 from the University of Neuchâtel , Switzerland. After returning to China, he taught at the National Central University and Beijing University, was director of the National Geological Survey, President of the Geological Society of China, Director of Southwest Geological Bureau, Deputy Director of Earth Sciences in the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Geology. In 1980 Huang received an honorary doctorate from the ETH Zurich and in 1985 he was elected an honorary member of the Geological Society of America . In 1932, Huang published the Permian Formations of Southern China, which provided the method for subdividing the Permian in China. In 1945 he began the theory of polycyclic tectonic motion to address the geotectonic features of China. Under his supervision, the first geotectonic map of China was created, for which he received the Chinese State Science Prize in 1982.
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| SURNAME | Huang, Jiqing |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Renshou , Sichuan |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1995 |