Fu Chengyi

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Fu Chengyi (7 October 1909 – 8 January 2000) was a Chinese geophysicist and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Biography

Fu was born into an official family in Minhou County, Fuzhou, on 7 October 1909.{{cite news |date=28 July 2021 |editor1=Wang Yanhua ({{lang|zh|王燕华}}) |title= |script-title=zh:傅承义：为中国地球科学发展指明方向 |trans-title=Fu Chengyi: points out the direction for the development of earth science in China |url=http://www.chinaql.org/n1/2021/0728/c437203-32172692.html |access-date=14 August 2021 |work=All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese |language=zh |editor2=Liu Tingting ({{lang|zh|刘婷婷}})}} His father Fu Yangxian ({{zh|s=傅仰贤|labels=no}}) was a diplomat in the Beiyang government. He had three siblings. His elder brother Fu Ying ({{zh|s=傅鹰|labels=no}}) was a chemist and vice president of Peking University. He elementary studied at Beijing Yuying Middle School ({{zh|s=北京育英中学|labels=no}}) and secondary studied at Huiwen High School ({{zh|s=汇文中学|labels=no}}). In 1929, he was accepted to Tsinghua University, majoring in the Department of Physics.{{cite news|url=https://history.seu.edu.cn/2018/0402/c18670a211853/page.htm |script-title=zh:傅承义 |trans-title=Fu Chengyi |work=Southeast University |date=13 May 2018 |access-date=14 August 2021 |language=zh}}{{cite news|url=http://www.cea-igp.ac.cn/fcxys/251726.html |script-title=zh:傅承义院士 |trans-title=Academician Fu Chengyi |work=cea-igp.ac.cn |date=13 April 2021 |access-date=14 August 2021 |language=zh}} After graduating in 1933, he stayed at the university and worked as assistant there. In 1938, he was recruited by the National Southwestern Associated University as an instructor.

In 1939, he was admitted to the UK overseas student at government scholarships, but he did not make the trip because of the outbreak of World War II. In 1940, he entered the Department of Physics, McGill University in Canada and studied geophysical exploration under the supervision of D. A. Keys, and received his master's degree in physics in 1941. In 1942, D. A. Keys recommended him to the Graduate School of California Institute of Technology to study geophysics and seismology under the guidance of Beno Gutenberg, a leader in modern geophysics. He earned his doctor's degree in physics in 1946. After university, he worked as a technical consultant in several oil and geophysical exploration companies. In 1946, he was hired by California Institute of Technology as an assistant professor.

In the spring of 1947, he received a letter from Zhao Jiuzhang, his university classmate and director of the Institute of Meteorology of the Academia Sinica, hoping him would return to China to preside over the geophysical research work of the Institute of Meteorology. Two weeks later, he returned to China and became a senior researcher in the Institute of Meteorology and a professor in the Department of Physics, Central University (now Southeast University). After the Chinese Civil War, the Nationalist government wanted him to go to Taiwan, but he refused.

In April 1950, the Chinese Academy of Sciences founded the Institute of Geophysics, Fu served as a researcher. In 1953, he moved to Beijing Institute of Geology (now China University of Geosciences (Beijing)), where he established the first geophysical teaching and research office in China. He also helped set up a teaching and research office of geophysics in Peking University in 1956. Fu joined the faculty of the University of Science and Technology of China in 1964, he established the teaching and research office of geophysics of which he himself served as the first director. In 1972, he founded the Focal Physics Research Office at the university. He joined the Communist Party in 1981.

On 8 January 2000, he died of illness in Beijing, aged 90.

He was a member of the 2nd, 5th and 6th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He was a delegate to the 3rd National People's Congress.

Honours and awards

1957 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

References

External links

[http://www.igg.cas.cn/rcjy/yszj/200908/t20090824_2436218.html Biography of Fu Chengyi] on the official website of the Chinese Academy of Sciences {{in lang|zh}}

Category:1909 births

Category:2000 deaths

Category:People from Minhou County

Category:Scientists from Fujian

Category:Educators from Fujian

Category:Writers from Fuzhou

Category:Chinese geophysicists

Category:Tsinghua University alumni

Category:McGill University alumni

Category:California Institute of Technology alumni

Category:California Institute of Technology faculty

Category:Academic staff of Peking University