曾庆存1935—

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1935年5月，曾庆存出生于广东省阳江市的一个农民家庭。1952年9月，考入北京大学物理系，就读于气象学专业，四年后顺利毕业。1957年，他被选派到前苏联科学院留学，继续深造。1961年，获得前苏联科学院数理科学副博士学位。他在博士论文中利用原始方程进行数值天气预报，并首创“半隐式差分法”求取微分方程的近似解，后来被广泛应用于各学科。回国后进入中国科学院地球物理研究所工作，先后担任任助理研究员、研究员。1980年，当选为中国科学院学部委员(院士)。1994年，当选为俄罗斯科学院外籍院士。1995年，担任中国工业与应用数学学会理事长，并在同年当选为第三世界科学院院士。2001年6月，中国科学技术协会第六次全国代表大会召开，并选举其出任第六届全国委员会副主席。2014年，当选为美国气象学会荣誉会员。2016年，获得第61届国际气象组织奖。

2020年1月10日，获2019年度国家最高科学技术奖。

Zeng Qingcun (born 4 May 1935) is a Chinese meteorologist and politician, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was a member of the 9th and 10th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a delegate to the 6th National People's Congress. He was an alternate member of the 13th and 14th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

Biography

Zeng was born into a poor farmer's family in Yangjiang County, Guangdong, on 4 May 1935, during the Republic of China. He secondary studied at Liangyang High School. In 1952, he enrolled in Peking University, majoring in meteorology, where he graduated in 1956. In November 1956, he was sent abroad to study at the Institute of Geophysics of the Academy of Sciences of Soviet Union (now Russian Academy of Sciences) at the expense of the government, obtaining a vice-doctorate under the direction of Ilya Kibel in 1961.

Zeng returned to China in 1961 and that same year was assigned to the Institute of Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he successively worked as assistant researcher and researcher. In January 1961, he was transferred to the newly founded Institute of Atmospheric Physics, in which he moved up the ranks to become director in 1984. He was a senior visiting scholar at Princeton University between December 1980 and April 1982. In 1995, he was proposed as president of China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (CSIAM), succeeding Xiao Shutie. In 1998, he was unanimously chosen as president of China Meteorological Society which he held only from 1998 to 2002, although he remained as president of China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics until 2000.

Honours and awards

• 1980 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 1988 State Natural Science Award (Second Class)
• 1994 Foreign Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• 1995 Member of the Third World Academy of Sciences
• 1995 Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation
• 2005 State Natural Science Award (Second Class)
• 2014 Honorary Member of the American Meteorological Society
• 2020 Highest Science and Technology Award
• 2021 Asian Scientist 100, Asian Scientist