核地球化学闪烁着先哲的智慧和创新的光辉——纪念侯德封院士诞辰100周年

A SAGE′S WISDOM AND HIS INNOVATIVE BRILLIANCE SHINE IN NUCLEAR GEOCHEMISTRY: 100 ANNIVERSARY OF CHINESE ACADEMICIAN HOU DEFENG′S NAISSANCE

60年代初 ,我国著名的地质学家、地球化学家侯德封院士 ,在他 4 0多年从事地质矿产调查和研究的基础上 ,运用现代核物理学的基本原理 ,创立并系统提出了“核地球化学”的基本原理、研究对象、内容和方法 ,并于 196 1年发表了著名的《核子地球化学》。随后 ,在不断补充、修正和完善核地球化学理论的基础上 ,侯德封先生发表了有关地球物质演化的能源、地球演化的阶段性、核转变的产物对地球的化学成分及同位素组成变异的影响等内容的、为地球科学向更深的物质层次发展具有巨大推动作用的《核转变能与地球物质的演化》科学专著 ,从而开辟了地球科学一个崭新的领域———核地球化学。侯德封先生在核地球化学领域上的丰硕成就与在学术上严谨的学风无不闪烁着一位先哲的智慧和创新的光辉。

Early 60′s, after more than 40 years studies on geological mineral resources, Aeademician Hou Defeng, Chinese distinguished geologist and geochemist, using the principle knowledge of modern nuclear physics, found and put forward systematically the principles, studying objects, contents and methods of nuclear geochemistry and published his famous book-“Nucleus Geochemistry” in 1961. Late on, on the basis of enriching, modifying and perfecting something into nuclear geochemistry, Mister Hou fulfilled his scientific magnum opus-“Nuclear-transportation Energy and Evolution of the Earth′s Matter” which is mainly about energies of evolution of the Earth′s substance, different evolutionary periods of the Earth, the functions of nuclear-transportation products on differentiation of the Earth′s chemical compositions and isotopic components. All of these principle systems afterward promoted greatly thedevelopment of geoscience in further and also marked the birth of nuclear geochemistry in China——a new scientific field in geoscience. Throughout his lifetime, it is no doubt that a sage′s wisdom and innovative brilliance shine on his plentiful and substantial achievements in nuclear geochemistry and incisive, imaginative, precise style of study.