Compiled from the following sources:
Special biographic research
Wen Wei Publishing Company, Ltd. 2002-2006
Who's Who, Current Chinese Leaders
Wen Wei Publishing Company, Ltd. 2003-2005
Revision History:
Biography Revised: 6/11/2003
Career Data Updated: 3/26/2006
Yang Zunyi 杨遵仪
Expert on Stratigraphic Paleontology
Birthplace: Guangdong Province, Jieyang City
Biography
Yang Zunyi, male, Han nationality, is a native of Jieyang, Guangdong Province. He graduated from Qinghua University in 1933 and received a doctorate from Yale University in 1939.
Yang Zunyi carried out the in-depth study on categories of invertebrate paleobiocoenosis and had success on his study of brachiopod, mollusk, and echinoderm. Yang organized and led the study on the causes of biogenic extinction events between the Paleozoic and Mesozoic periods, the borderline of Permian system and Triassic system and the mineralizing law, and selected 3 section planes of the Permian system riassic system borderlines in southern China as international candidates.
Yang is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Career Data
| 1980— | Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences | |
| Professor, China University of Geosciences | ||
| 1939 | Graduate, Yale University USA, Connecticut, New Haven (Received Doctorate) | |
| 1933 | Graduate, Tsinghua University, Geology Department Beijing Municipality |
