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Biography

Huang Runqian, male, Han nationality, is a native of Hengshan, Hunan Province. He graduated from Schiller University in Germany.

Huang served as a researcher at the Yunan Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has many years of experience in star physics research, and he has made considerable contributions concerning non-conservatory binary-star evolution, stellar wind shock wave theory, and the material damage caused by stellar wind. Huang found that material damage existing in binary stars and various complex factors occurred during loss of angular momentum and established a strict mathematical base for non-conservatory binary-star evolution. This discovery resulted in the first proposal in joint efforts with Weigert concerning stellar wind shock wave theory, and has been widely recognized internationally. In joint efforts with Weigert, Huang found an important effect imposed by overshot convection on the evaluation of stars and proposed a method to judge the area of the overshooting zone by using the evolution process of the Cepheid variable. This study has enabled the determination of overshot convection with astronomical observation.

Huang Runqian was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1999.