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    PEOPLE & POINTS

    Jul 15, 2021 3 minutes

    ASTEROID NAMED AFTER CHINESE PALEONTOLOGIST

    An asteroid has been named after Chinese paleontologist Zhang Miman (also known as Meemann Chang), with the approval from the Minor Planet Center under the patronage of the International Astronomical Union for her pioneering work in life sciences on July 2.

    Zhang, born in 1936, is a Chinese paleontologist at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). She became the first woman to become head of IVPP in 1983.

    Over the past 50 years, Zhang’s research has contributed significantly to the people’s understanding of the evolution of species on Earth.

    In 1991, she was selected as

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