About Shi Yafeng
Lived 1919 – 2011 (aged 91). Shi Yafeng was a Chinese geographer and geologist.
Shi Yafeng (; March 21, 1919 – February 13, 2011) was a Chinese geographer and glaciologist. He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was an expert on geography and glaciology, and regarded as the "Father of Chinese Glaciology".
Life Shi was born in Haimen, Jiangsu on March 21, 1919. He did his undergraduate and postgraduate studies both at Zhejiang University. He led the Batoula Glacier Investigation Team, Glaciology and Geocryology Institute of Chinese Academe Science in 1978, which was the first modern Chinese team to systematically investigate glaciers.
He was a researcher, vice-director, director, honorary director of the Lanzhou Glacier Frozen Earth Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Works monograph: Glacier Conspectus of China (Shi et al., 1988) monograph: Glaciers and Glacial Geomorphology in China (Shi, 1992)
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Who was Shi Yafeng?
Chinese geologist
When was Shi Yafeng born?
Shi Yafeng was born on 21 March 1919.
When did Shi Yafeng die?
Shi Yafeng died on 13 February 2011 in Jiangsu Province Hospital.
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Shi Yafeng was a geographer and geologist.
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Shi Yafeng was Chinese.
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