INSPIRATIONS DRAWN FROM ONE OF OUR RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENTS

In January 1985, our Institute formed a topic research team aimed at treating underwater soft foundations with explosive techniques. Its research target was the West Seawall in the Harbour of Lianyungang in northern Jiangsu Province. The West Seawall is a key engineering project in the construction and development of the Harbour.

MY RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENTS IN POWDER X-RAY DIFFRACTION & PHASE DIAGRAMS

I graduated from the Department of Chemistry, Xiamen University in 1955, majoring in physical chemistry. I went to the Institute of Metallurgy under the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1956 as a Ph.D.candidate in thermochemistry and crystal chemistry of metal alloys,and got my Ph.D.degree in 1960.In the following 30 years, I did basic and applied research in interdisciplines,including crystal chemistry,materials science and solid state physics.My main achievements can be listed in two aspects as follows:

MY RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENTS IN MOLECULAR THERMODYNAMICS

I have been engaged in teaching and research work in physical chemistry ever since I graduated from university.Starting from the early 1970s,I have focused my research on molecular thermodynamics,which deals with thermodynamic problems in engineering practice at the molecular level.Based on statistical mechanics, computerized simulation and experimental results,the establishment of molecular thermodynamic models for fluid mixtures is the centerpiece of my work. Theoretically,it expounds the structure of fluid mixtures,and the effect of intermolecular interactions on structural and

MY RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE FIELD OF NEURO-ANATOMY

In 1929, I was born in Shanghai. I graduated from the former Hsiang Ya Medical College (a Yale-affdiated medical school in China before Liberation in 1949, and the predecessor of today’s Hunan Medical University) in 1952. My aspiration to be a clinical doctor was strongly influenced by my father Sophie (his pen name) whereas my devotion for all my life to neuro-anatomy resulted from the interaction between the mandatory system of work assignment by the State and my personal selfdevelopment. In the year of my graduation, the Ministry of Public Health under the National Military Commission was in need of a human anatomy lecturer and asked its civil counterpart to select a nominee for the vacancy. At the time, Ihad chosen basic medical research as my career and anatomy was definitely not one of my options, nor was any of my classmates in favor of it. However, the solution to this issue was simple enough: the

The 10th anniversary of Water Science and Engineering:A journal focusing on research frontiers and sci-tech achievements

Water Science and Engineering(WSE),founded in 2008,is a scholarly journal published in English,with focuses on water science research and hydraulic engineering practice.Guided by a creative and ambitious spirit,WSE has,since its foundation,sought out scientifically rigorous research with high practical value from a global perspective.The strong support from

CAS ACHIEVEMENTS IN BASIC RESEARCH DURING THE NATIONAL 8TH FIVE-YEAR PLAN

Since its founding in 1949,the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has committed itself to gaining honor for our nation by successfully scaling heights of contemporary science.To this end.Chinese scientists have striven to exert themselves from generation to generation in a courageous and unflagging way. During the period of the national Eighth Five-year Plan(1991—1995), the scientists with the CAS went on working at the frontiers of international science.According to statistics,there were 205 key R&D projects

CAS ACHIEVEMENTS IN RESEARCH INTO GOLD

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Achieve Research Excellence through Improvement of Science Assessment System

With the support of the Consultation and Evaluation Committee of the Academic Divisions of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS),a task force headed by CAS Member FANG Rongxiang recently conducted a project entitled Science Value Assessment in an Increasingly Globalized World.Based on the study,the researchers presented a report on the improvement of China’s science assessment system.The following paragraphs present the major ideas of this report.

Remarkable achievements in orogenic belt research——An introduction to a fulfilled program supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)

THE continental dynamics has become a goaI since the beginning of the 1990s and it will still bethe key subject in the 21st century. Orogenic belts, having experienced the most intensechanges of geotherm and mechanics in the lithosphere, are the important research object in thestudy of continental dynamics. For this reason, the study of orogenic belts forms a hot and dif-ficult point in the geological society and the concentration of efforts is needed for overcomingthis difficult point. China has the most orogenic belts of various types in the world, so the De-partment of Earth Sciences caught this scientific chance in the early 1990s, took the