What is Zhao Qiguo?
{{Infobox person | name = Zhao Qiguo | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1930|2|25|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Wuhan]], China | death_date = {{death date and age|2023|1|3|1930|2|25|df=y}} | death_place = [[Nanjing]], China | monuments = | residence = | nationality = Chinese | occupation = pedologist | known_for = | relatives = | awards = }} '''Zhao Qiguo''' (25 February 1930 – 3 January 2023) was a Chinese [[soil]] scientist. Zhao studied at the Department of Agronomy at the [[Wuhan University]] in 1949, and later moved to [[Huazhong Agricultural University]] due to the changement of the department where he graduated in 1953. He was an elected member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991. He was a member of the [[Academic Division of Earth Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences]] from 1991. He worked as a researcher at the [[Institute of Soil Science]]. He became the director of the Nanjing Soil Research Institute and the chairman of [[Soil Science Society of China]].<ref name=ref1>{{cite web|url=https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1753992409482370518&wfr=spider&for=pc |title=我国著名土壤学家、中国科学院院士赵其国逝世|work=baijiahao.baidu.com|date=3 January 2023|access-date=3 January 2023|language=zh}}</ref><ref name=ref2>{{cite web|url=http://sourcedb.cas.cn/sourcedb_ad_cas/zw2/ysxx/dxb/|title= 中国科学院学部与院士·院士信息·地学部·赵其国|work=sourcedb.cas.cn|date=28 March 2012|access-date=3 January 2023|language=nl|archive-date=26 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426134225/http://sourcedb.cas.cn/sourcedb_ad_cas/zw2/ysxx/dxb/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Qiguo died in Nanjing on 3 January 2023, at the age of 92.<ref name=ref1 /> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Zhao, Qiguo}} [[Category:Chinese academics]] [[Category:1930 births]] [[Category:2023 deaths]] {{Bio-stub}}