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Biography

Yu Chongwen, male, Han nationality, is a native of Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, and was born in Shanghai. He graduated from Beijing University in 1950.

Yu Chongwen has studied the theory of geochemistry with the result of opening up several new academic fields including multivariant analysis for geology geochemistry . This field studies the values and geometric features of multicomponent system by use of multivariate statistical analysis, and researches the geologic process, geological field process and geological field by the random process and random fields.

Another of the new academic fields opened by Professor Yu is aerial geochemistry, which studies the lithogeous process and mineralizing process through the imbalance and irreversible process of thermodynamics. Based on the dissipative structure theory, Yu put forward an aerial geochemical theory.

A final process was the complexity of mineralizing systems. Yu proposed a new mineralizing theory and methodology: "fractal growth of mineralizing dynamic system at the chaos fringe", which caused the formation of ore deposit and mineralizing law, the research of which has advanced the ordinary gitology to non-linearity and complexity science level.

Yu is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.