AWARDEE OF EARTH SCIENCES PRIZE

YANG QI

Abstract

Yang Qi was born on 17 May 1919, in Penglai, Shangdon Province.coal genologist, Professor of China University of Geosciences. He was graduated from National Southwest Associated University in 1943 and finished graduate study from Peking University in 1946.
He was elected the academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991.
Professor Yang Qi is one of the leading scholars in the  coal geological circle in China. He was in charge of the establishment of  Beijing Geology Institute,  China first coal geology specialty, in 1952, and cultivated with young teachers about thousands of qualified scientists and technicians, including bachelors, masters and doctors.
He published more than 50 papers and  6 books as first author, won 1 special class prize, 1 prize for excellent scientific and technological book, 2 first class prizes and 3 secondary class prizes of ministry level, as well as Li Siguang honorable prize .
Academician Yang Qi always chooss his researching topics based on the demand of national reconstruction and on the development of knowledge branch. His reseach works on coal geology are rather systematic, and he is one of the two chief editors of “Coal Geology in China",in which the features about coal geology in China were well summed up. His contribution is prominent in the developing and forming the coal geology theories with Chinese characteristics.
His viewpoint “multistage metamorphic evolution and superimposed metamorphism through multithermo sources in Chinese Coal Metamorphism in China " he edited, in which he expounded the cause why various coal marks occur in China and their distributing regularities genetically.He also points out that the superimposed telemagmatic metamorphism not only promoted the coal to middle and high ranks, but also increased the coalbed permeability. So he suggests that in China, especially in North China, we better to find the prospecting targets of coalbed methane in the coalfields distributing along the latitudinal and NE-NNE tectonic belts where the telemagmatic metamorphism of coal occurred.