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Biography Highlight

Wang Pinxian, male, Han nationality, is a native of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. He graduated from the Geology Department of Moscow University in 1960. Wang spent two years, from 1981 to 1982, conducting research at Kiel University in Germany and won a Humboldt Scholarship award. He is considered an expert on marine geology.

Recent Career Data

	Chairman, Chinese Ocean Research Committee
	Vice-Chairman, International Ocean Research Committee
	Honorary Member, London Geology Society
1991—	Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1981	(Awarded, Humboldt Scholarship)
1981—1982	Student, University of Kiel Germany, Kiel
1960	Graduate, Moscow University, Geology Department Russia, Moscow