Sun Yunzhu

Sun Yunzhu , also Yen Chu Sun with the abbreviation YC Sun, (born October 1, 1897 in Kao-Yu , Kiangsu Province , † 1979 ) was a Chinese paleontologist .

Sun went to Nanking Middle School and graduated from Beijing National University with a bachelor's degree in geology and paleontology . Then he was a geologist with the Geological Survey of China and an Associated Professor at Beijing University. In 1927 he received his doctorate under Johannes Walther at the University of Halle . After that he was a professor at Peking University. During the war with Japan, the northern universities, including Beijing, were relocated to Kunming , and Sun headed the Faculty of Geology, Geography and Meteorology there. After the war he was again director of the Institute of Geology and Paleontology at Peking University until 1952. He then headed the geology department in the Ministry of Education .

He was one of the most important paleontologists in China and dealt mainly with paleontology and stratigraphy of the Paleozoic Era . He also dealt with general problems such as marine transgression .

With Yang Zhongjian he decided in 1927 on an excursion of the German Geological Society to the Harz Mountains to found the Chinese Paleontological Society, which took place in Beijing in August 1929. Ding Wenjiang , Amadeus William Grabau and Sun Yunzhu were elected as the first official representatives .

Sun was the first to describe the Ceratiten Ceratites stolleyi SUN in 1927

In 1955 he became a member of the Academia Sinica and in 1960 Vice President of the Academy of Geological Sciences. He was a founding member of the Geological Society of China and its President and he was the President of the Paleontological Society of China.

Fonts

• Above the hem of the mouth and the living chamber of the ceratites of the Upper German Muschelkalks. 1 - 22, 2 plates, inaugural dissertation, United Friedrichs University Halle-Wittenberg, Max Weg publisher in Leipzig, printed by Oskar Bonde in Altenburg, Thuringia, Halle a. P. 1927, pdf

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1897 according to the curriculum vitae in his dissertation. It is also given in 1895
2. ^ Curriculum vitae in his dissertation, listed there with English names
3. ↑ Ilse Seibold, Der Weg zur Biogeologie: Johannes Walther (1860--1937), Springer 1992. Biography of Yen Chu Sun on p. 171
4. ↑ Joachim Reiter, Yang Qun, Wang Yongdang, Mike Reich (Eds.), Palaeobiology and Geobiology of Fossil Deposits through history, Universitätsverlag Göttingen 2013, foreword
5. ↑ Ceratites stolleyi at Terra Triassica

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Sun is the family name here, Yunzhu is the first name.