In May, we once again bid farewell to an academic master.
According to @ 中科院 之 声 微 博 news, Wan Weixing, a member of the 14th Central Committee of the Jiu San Society, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a researcher of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, died in Beijing on the evening of May 20, 2020 at the age of 62 year old.
Wan Weixing is a famous space physicist, born in Tianmen, Hubei in July 1958. He graduated from the Space Physics Department of Wuhan University in 1982 and received a Ph.D. from the Wuhan Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1989. Elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011. He was a researcher at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the director of the academic committee of the Institute. He has long been engaged in theoretical, observational and applied research in the fields of ionospheric physics, ionospheric radio wave propagation, upper atmospheric physics, etc. He is an academic leader in the field of space physical ionospheric research in China.
Wan Weixing served as a member of the 13th Central Committee of the Jiu San Society, a deputy chairman of the 4th Committee of Hubei Province, a member of the 12th Committee of Beijing; a representative of the 12th National People's Congress; and a standing member of the 8th and 9th CPPCC National Committee of Hubei Province.
After the death of Wan Weixing, 16 academicians from the two academies lost in the Republic this year.
In January this year, Jiang Hongde, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a well-known expert in impeller machinery and power engineering in China, Chi Zhiqiang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a famous neuropharmacologist, Fang Shouxian, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a famous accelerator physicist, and a famous physicist of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Four people died.
In February, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, famous ecologist Sun Ruyong, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, mechanical manufacturing and automation expert Duan Zhengcheng, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, famous pharmacist Zhou Tonghui, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, famous highway engineering expert Sha Qinglin, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Five famous agricultural engineering scientist Jiang Yiyuan died.
In March, Ning Jinsheng, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, famous geodeticist, and educator, Li Daozeng, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and professor of the School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Zhou Jun, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a famous plant resource and plant chemist, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Four people died of Lu Shibi.
In April, Yu Mingfang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and founder of China's chemical fiber field, passed away.
In May, Zhang Ganer, academician and famous chemist of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Wan Weixing, academician and space physicist of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, died one after another.
Reporter Yue Huairang