AWARDEE OF EARTH SCIENCES PRIZE

TU CHUANYI

Tu Chuanyi,  was born on July 24, 1940 in Beijing. From 1952 to 1958, He studied in the fourth middle school of Beijing. After he finished a six-year-study program he graduated from the Space physics specialization, Department of Geophysics, Peking University in 1964. Since 1972, he has been working as a teacher at Department of Geophysics, Peking University. He is now a full professor and was elected the academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2001.
Tu Chuanyi made systematic contributions to the solar wind turbulence study. His papers have been widely quoted and highly evaluated in the related academic community. Till 2002, his papers have been quoted 1214 times by SCI collecting papers. The papers with him as the first author have been quoted by 843 times by SCI papers.
Tu Chuanyi made major contributions to recover the nature of the solar wind turbulence, and explained a series of observed phenomena, which could not be understood previously. He developed a new energy transfer theory, which can self-consistently describes the Alfven wave propagation and MHD turbulence energy cascade. This theory is called as “WBK like turbulence theory." Based on this theory, he also developed a model to describe the heating of the solar wind protons by turbulence cascade energy. This theory is evaluated as ‘opening the way for more complete treatment of the turbulence.'  In a series of collaboration work, he also made major contribution to develop an extended intermittence theory to explain the nature of high order  structure function in the solar wind.
As the unique contributor, Tu Chuanyi received the following awards: the second rank awards of the National Natural Science A ward both in 1989 and 2002, the award of Wong Dan Peng Science Prize in 1992,  VIKRAM SARABHAI medal of COSPAR and Holang-Holi Prize in 2002.