Deng Qidong | |||||||||
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邓起东 | |||||||||
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| Born | January 1938 | ||||||||
| Died | 6 November 2018 (aged 80) 301 Hospital, Beijing, China | ||||||||
| Education | Central South University | ||||||||
| Children | 1 | ||||||||
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| Fields | Earthquake | ||||||||
| Workplaces | Chinese Academy of Sciences | ||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 鄧起東 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 邓起东 | ||||||||
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Deng Qidong (Chinese: 邓起东; Wade–Giles: Teng Ch'i-tung; January 1938 – 6 November 2018) was a Chinese geologist.
Deng was born in Shuangfeng County, Hunan in 1938. After graduating from the Central South University in 1961, he was assigned to the Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He joined the Chinese Communist Party on 25 May 1961. From February 1978 to March 1998 he worked in the China Earthquake Administration, where he was appointed director of Graduate Degree Committee of Geological Research Institute. In 2003 he was elected a fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He died of illness at Beijing 301 Hospital, in Beijing, on 6 November 2018.
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