Wang Pengfei

Wang Pengfei

He was born in Shanghai in December 1920 and his ancestral home is Ningbo, Zhejiang. He graduated from the National Central University in 1945, and is the only graduate of the Department of Meteorology of the University. In 1950, he joined the meteorological cause of new China. He has successively served as an engineer of the Central Meteorological Bureau, deputy director of the compilation office, deputy director of the publicity and publication department, deputy director of the Department of Meteorology of Nanjing meteorological college, director of the Department of meteorological physics, honorary director and consultant of the Journal of the college. He died in Nanjing on March 25, 2011 at the age of 91.

He has been engaged in the research of cloud physics and weather modification for a long time, and put forward the research theory of weather guidance. He was one of the founders of Nanjing meteorological college. In 1960, he, together with Zhu Hezhou and Feng Xiuzao, was responsible for the preparation of Nanjing meteorological college and the establishment of three earliest departments, namely, the Department of weather dynamics, the Department of Atmospheric Physics and the Department of agricultural meteorology. He has been in the forefront of teaching and scientific research for more than 60 years. He has compiled more than ten textbooks with millions of words, taught three basic courses and six professional courses. He is a famous meteorological historian, wrote the history of ancient Chinese climatology, a brief history of the development of atmospheric science, etc., and is the founder of the Research Association of Meteorological History. He is a famous meteorological terminologist, and has been engaged in the standardization, standardization and standardization of meteorological terms He is a well-known science popularization activist. He has written for "100000 whys" and "scientific public", and has played a great role in popularizing meteorological knowledge and improving the scientific quality of the whole people.

From 1950 to 2000, he wrote 5 books, translated 4 books, compiled 13 kinds of teaching materials and published more than 300 papers. In 1985 and 1990, they won the titles of Nanjing model worker and national meteorological system model worker respectively, and enjoyed special government subsidies.

Life of the characters

Wang Pengfei was born in Shanghai in December 1920, and his native place is Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province.

In 1945, he graduated from the Department of Meteorology of National Central University. He successively served as an engineer of the Central Meteorological Bureau, deputy director of the compilation office, deputy director of the publicity and publishing department, deputy director of the Department of Meteorology of Nanjing meteorological University, director of the Department of meteorological physics, honorary director and consultant of the Journal of the Institute.

In 1960, Zhu, Zhou, Wang Pengfei and Feng Xiuzao jointly organized the Nanjing Institute of Meteorology and established the first three departments, namely, the Department of weather dynamics, the Department of Atmospheric Physics and the Department of agricultural meteorology. Since then, he has devoted himself to the construction and development of the school and gone through nearly half a century with the school. When the major of atmospheric physics needed to set up the physics of cloud and precipitation, he was the first to undertake the task of opening a new course, read a large number of domestic and foreign materials, and wrote a 700000 word handout; when air pollution became a problem of concern to people, he volunteered to complete the compilation of the handout of "air pollution compendium" within half a year, and was the first to undertake the task of "air pollution compendium" The teaching task of "meteorology" course. He has been in the forefront of teaching and scientific research for more than 30 years. He has compiled more than 10 textbooks with millions of words and taught three basic courses and six professional courses

Since 1983, he and Xie Yibing, LV Dongming, Hong Shinian, etc. have established the Meteorological History Research Association, and become the main leaders of the association. He has served as the director of the society, organized annual meetings and research activities. He is the only non-governmental academic group in China that carried out the earliest research on Meteorological History, affiliated with Nanjing meteorological University. He has trained talents of meteorological historical records, exchanged research on Meteorological historical records, proposed research scope, broadened research field, encouraged works of meteorological historical records, evaluated research results, corrected traditional contents and research methods of meteorological historical records, and supported and explored new historical materials. He wrote a large number of papers on Meteorological History, which has a certain reputation in the field of history, meteorology and meteorology in all provinces, cities and autonomous regions of China. It emphasizes that the study of meteorological history should include natural Meteorological History, academic Meteorological History and social Meteorological History, and pay attention to ideological history and methodology, which enriches the connotation of the study of meteorological historical records. As a member of Nanjing zhukeframe Research Association, he was a consultant of Shanghai Meteorological History Office and a member of editorial board of weather monthly in 1950s. He has written for the Meteorological History of the people's Republic of China and the Memoirs of the meteorological cause of new China.

In 1985, he participated in a visit to Japan by the Chinese Meteorological Society and gave a report on the history of Chinese meteorology at the Tsukuba Institute of meteorology, Japan.

In 1986 and 1987, he was employed as the editorial board member of the communication of "historical materials of Chinese science and technology", and served as the Standing Committee member of the fourth and fifth sessions of the Jiangsu Provincial Political Consultative Conference.

In 1985 and 1990, they won the titles of Nanjing model worker and national meteorological system model worker respectively, and enjoyed special government subsidies.

At 14:38 on March 25, 2011, due to invalid medical treatment, he died in Nanjing at the age of 91.

Main achievements

Achievements in scientific research

In the research of Atmospheric Physics, Wang Pengfei mainly studies macro and micro cloud and precipitation physics, weather change (weather modification), atmospheric light, sound and electricity, atmospheric pollution, general meteorology, etc. There are lectures, works, research activities and papers on the above aspects. In the 1950s, we carried out science popularization activities, and made a special excerpt of popular meteorology on behalf of the society of meteorology. Since the 1960s, he has carried out theoretical and practical guidance, works publicity, evaluation and organization of science books and magazines abstracts and other activities in the national and Jiangsu meteorological science popularization.

In 1951, the Bureau of compilation and translation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences commissioned the Chinese meteorological society to compile "meteorological terms". Wang Pengfei was responsible for providing the terms of high altitude meteorology. This book was reviewed and published in 1954. Wang Pengfei was also a member of the editorial board of Russian Chinese English comparative meteorology terms (1958) and atmospheric science terms (1988). From 1985 to 1990, he became the main member of Nanjing meteorological terminology research group. From 1987 to 1992, his research papers on meteorological terms were published almost every year in the journal "Research on academic terms of natural sciences" compiled by the national natural science terms examination and Approval Committee. Up to now, some papers have been published in Journal of Nanjing meteorological college and Cihai and communication. In terms of dictionary compilation, he has been the editorial board member and chief editor of meteorological branch of Ci Hai since 1960 (1960-1999). He once served as the editorial board member and branch chief editor of Encyclopedia of China and Atmospheric Science Volume (1987), Encyclopedia of China agriculture and agrometeorology volume (1986), Encyclopedia of the world and atmospheric science Masterpieces (1992). He also served as the responsible chief editor of Meteorology Dictionary (1985) and chief editor of Meteorology division. He was the key book of Chinese Masterpieces (1994) He is a member of the editorial board of the dictionary of foreign names (1988), and has specially written Chinese ancient meteorology for the dictionary of Atmospheric Science (1990).

Monographs: climate of the motherland (China Youth Publishing House, 1954); introduction to advection dynamic theory (Financial Publishing House, 1954); basic principles of Meteorology (Science Publishing House, 1959); history of ancient Chinese Climatology (Science Publishing House, 1985); micro cloud physics (meteorology publishing house, 1989), etc., totaling more than one million words.

Translated books: International cloud picture (Science Press, 1964); physical meteorology (Science Press, 1960); compendium of cloud physics (Science Press, 1983); overview of Atmospheric Science (Shanghai Science and Technology Press, 1981).

Handouts: Physics of cloud and precipitation (1965), meteorological science, atmospheric acoustics, atmospheric electricity, upper atmosphere (1964), evaporation, condensation and weather phenomena (1980), physics of cloud and precipitation (macro part), physics of cloud and precipitation (micro part, 1980), compendium of atmospheric pollution (1983), etc Words.

The compilation of dictionaries has been listed in this paper (2,3).

Various papers: more than 200 papers have been published, including atmospheric physics, historical records of paleometeorology, research on meteorological terms, etc. Before 1985, there were many papers on atmospheric light, cloud physics, precipitation observation, pollution meteorology and weather modification. Since 1985, there have been many papers on Meteorological historical records and meteorological terms.

"Cloud and fog precipitation physics" and its research work

① In the 1960s, the term "Ninghua", which first means "gas directly condenses into solid state", was widely used not only in the meteorology field, but also by the majority of scientific workers in China, as a common term in all disciplines of natural science.

② In our country, we first compiled the monograph micro cloud physics (Meteorological Press, 19-89), which comprehensively and thoroughly expounded the micro phenomena, micro processes and micro principles in cloud and precipitation, and filled the gaps in the monograph of micro cloud physics.

③ In 1973, the Central Meteorological Bureau selected the report of the Symposium on hail suppression and precipitation science and education. The relationship between the direction of hail movement and weather situation, mountain terrain and plain landform was discussed. The movement and development trend of hail were expounded in principle. It is of great reference value to understand the change of Hail Cloud direction and hail suppression activities.

④ "A discussion on the formation mechanism of Jusong" (1980, Nanjing meteorological Journal), "Hail? Ju Song Yi (1982, meteorology magazine) and re discussing the formation of Ju song (1982, meteorology magazine) put forward a rare meteorology phenomenon (Ju song), which solved the problem of Inner Mongolia

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