Representative work: Geological report of the Yangtze River basin below Wuhu, Cenozoic in northern China.

Ding Wenjiang's life

1887, Ding Wenjiang was born in a scholarly family in Taixing, Jiangsu.

/kloc-in the autumn of 0/902, I went to Japan, but I didn't go to a regular school. I have a lot of contacts with anti-Qing students and live a life of "talking about revolution and writing articles".

/kloc-in the summer of 0/904, influenced by Wu Zhihui, he went to England from Japan.

1autumn of 906, studying at Cambridge University.

1907-1911studied zoology and geology at the university of Glasgow and got a double bachelor's degree.

19 1 1 May, he left England and returned to China. After returning to China, he investigated geology and mineral resources in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces.

Returning to China to teach

1911-1912 teaches physiology, English, chemistry and other courses in Shanghai Nanyang middle school, and edits zoology textbooks. Ding Wenjiang has been engaged in geological work since he met Zhang.

19 1 1 In September, he met Zhang, the founder of China's early geological career, in the examination for foreign students in Beijing Normal University.

After working experience, 19 13 went to Beijing again in February as the geological section chief of the Mining Management Department of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. Shortly thereafter, Zhang and others and I founded the Geological Research Institute of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce to train geological talents and serve as the director. 19 14, I resigned as the director and went to Yunnan again in February 19 14, June 19 15.

19 16 founded the Geological Survey Institute of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce with Zhang Heweng, and served as the director.

19 17, Ding Wenjiang went to Europe with Liang Qichao and attended the Paris Peace Conference as a participant without voting rights. It is suggested to Cai Yuanpei and Ding Wenjiang, presidents of Peking University, that American geologist Glip and Li Siguang, who was studying in Britain at that time, be invited to teach in our school.

192 1 year, after Ding Wenjiang resigned as the director of geological survey, he also served as honorary director and general manager of Beipiao Coal Mine.

Academic contribution 1922 He and Hu Shi and others founded Effort Weekly, published a lot of articles, and urged "good people" to come out for politics. In the article "Minority Responsibility", he pointed out decisively: "Recognizing politics is our only purpose, and improving politics is our only obligation. Don't be fooled by others, saying that improving politics should start with industrial education. " "The political chaos in China is not due to the naivety of the people, the corruption of politicians and bureaucrats, and the arrogance of soldiers and warlords-it is because the' minority' has no sense of responsibility and is unable to take responsibility." 1spring of 929, in charge of geological survey in southwest provinces, and began to concurrently serve as honorary director of Cenozoic research office of Geological Survey Institute. 193 1 became a professor of geology in Peking University.

1June, 933, Ding Wenjiang left Shanghai for Washington to attend the 16 international geological conference, accompanied by Glip, Germany and Japan. then

Visit Europe again, and visit the Soviet Union from September to June.

The outbreak of "September 18th Incident" stimulated Ding Wenjiang, who was once depressed, to get back on his feet and set up Independent Review with Hu Shi and others. But after nearly ten years of ups and downs, their mood has changed, and they have lost their enthusiasm and confidence in actually participating in politics when they founded Difficult Weekly. They just want to comment that politics is "independent" and does not depend on any party. While engaged in scientific research, Ding Wenjiang made extensive comments on "what's going on in the world". In If I Were Zhang Xueliang, like a military scientist, he designed a battle plan for Zhang Xueliang. In Articles 0755-79000, Jiang was painstakingly advised to "immediately complete unity within the Kuomintang", "immediately seek military cooperation" and "immediately negotiate a truce with * * *". The only condition for a truce is not to attack each other within the date of the Anti-Japanese War. "However, this is still wishful thinking.

Ding Wenjiang attached great importance to the field geological survey, advocated serial publication, and actively cooperated with the mine geological survey during his establishment and as the director of the Geological Survey Institute.

Ding Wenjiang stayed in the field for many years, collecting first-hand information and writing books. In his early years, when he led his students on a field trip, he strongly advocated the principles of "climbing high and looking far, going forward bravely" and "taking short circuits instead of long roads, taking flat roads instead of mountain roads". He set a good example for geologists in China for field investigation and collection.

19 13 years, Ding Wenjiang, Fusolga, Wang Xibin and others investigated the geology and minerals along the railway in Zheng Tai, and gained a lot. First of all, he gave a new geographical definition of "Taihang Mountain", thinking that the mountain range from Jiyuan, Henan Province to Fuping, Hebei Province is the real Taihang Mountain, and the mountain range from Fuping to Shanhaiguan should be called "Yanshan Mountain". Secondly, he pointed out that traditional geography often regards mountains as the watershed of big rivers, while some big rivers in Shanxi, such as Tanghe River, Hutuo River and Zhanghe River, all pass through Taihang Mountain and flow to Hebei, breaking the habit of "there must be water between two mountains and mountains between two waters". Thirdly, he never blindly believed the conclusions of foreigners' geological investigation in China, but sought truth from facts and made concrete analysis. For example, Richthofen, a German, said blindly and optimistically in the last century: "Shaanxi is indeed the richest place in coal and iron in the world. According to the current world market, Shanxi alone can supply the world for thousands of years. " After field work in Ding Wenjiang, we found that Shanxi does have a lot of coal, but no iron. The maximum thickness of the iron ore seam near Zheng Tai Road is less than 0.6m, and the thickness is unstable and irregular, which has little economic value. In fact, this is the so-called "ancient weathering crust type" and "Shanxi type iron ore" today. He wrote an article entitled "If I were Chiang Kai-shek" according to the facts, which corrected the mistakes of foreigners.