Huang Jiqing

Huang Jiqing, also known by his courtesy name Huang Degan, was a Chinese geologist. He was born March 30, 1904, in Renshou, Sichuan to an intellectual family. In 1928 he obtained his bachelor's degree at Peking University, and in 1935 he got his PhD at University of Neuchâtel, Swiss. After returning to China he taught at National Central University and Peking University, and served as director of the National Geological Survey, president of the Geological Society of China, director of the Southwest Geological Bureau, deputy director of the Academic Division of Earth Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, deputy president of the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences. In 1980 Huang received an honorary doctorate from the ETH Zurich, and in 1985 he was elected as an honorary member of Geological Society of America.