China News Agency, Beijing, May 21 (Reporter Sun Zifa) The official microblog of the Chinese Academy of Sciences "Voice of the Chinese Academy of Sciences" issued an obituary on the 21st, saying that the members of the 14th Central Committee of the Jiu San Society, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and researcher of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Satellite, died in Beijing on the evening of May 20, 2020 at the age of 62.
Information from the academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences shows that the space physicist Wan Weixing was born in Tianmen, Hubei in July 1958. He graduated from the Department of Space Physics of Wuhan University in 1982 and received a doctorate from the Wuhan Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1989. He was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011, a researcher of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the director of the academic committee of the Institute.
Academician Wan Weixing is mainly engaged in the research of ionospheric physics, ionospheric radio wave propagation, upper atmospheric physics and other fields, and has made important breakthroughs and series of achievements in the research of major scientific issues such as the coupling of ionosphere and atmosphere.
According to the official website of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academician Wan Weixing is the director of the Institute of Geomagnetism and Space Physics. He has undertaken and completed more than 20 major national key research projects and national defense engineering projects. , High-frequency diagnosis of ionospheric disturbances, characteristics of ionospheric disturbance regions, ionospheric-atmospheric coupling, multi-scale ionospheric process correlation, ionospheric climatology and modeling studies, electromagnetic wave propagation correction in space engineering, etc. Important results.
The Proceedings of the Chinese Academy of Sciences published in July 2019 the subject article "From a Deep Space Exploration Power to a Planetary Science Power", led by Academician Wan Weixing, pointed out that speeding up the construction of a planetary science first-level discipline and comprehensively improving China's deep space exploration capabilities and planets The international influence of science will definitely accelerate China's move from a deep space exploration power to a planetary science power.
The author's introduction shows that Academician Wan Weixing is the chief scientist of China's first Mars exploration program, director of the Planetary Physics Committee of the Chinese Geophysical Society, director of the Key Laboratory of Earth and Planetary Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and leader of the planetary physics discipline of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. (Finish)