When the historical data collection work obtained good results and evaluation, Wang Haiyan was happy. But what made her most sad and regrettable was that in 2012, Zhao Ermi was diagnosed with moderate Alzheimer's disease,

so Wang Haiyan has not been able to have a face-to-face interview with Zhao Ermi since accepting the job in 2014. With the deepening of the data collection work, Wang Haiyan's respect and reverence for Zhao Ermi became deeper,

and he was eager to present the data sorting and academic biography to Zhao Ermi as soon as possible. But what Wang Haiyan did not expect was that Zhao Ermi did not wait for that day to come, and died of illness at the end of 2016. 'I'm very sad! Wang Haiyan said.

Oral history embodies the subject status of man

Because of the oral history of the collation work, Wang Haiyan has a deep feeling for the "collection project" work, in her own words, I am with emotions and at the same time in a fair, objective, level looking attitude to do this work.

At the same time, she also realized that China's oral history research and application should be strengthened: "The project of collecting data on the academic growth of old scientists can be said to be an important practice of oral history in the research of the history of science and technology in China, which will vigorously promote the research and application of oral history in China."

"I personally believe that the emergence of oral history can confirm and supplement each other with documents and historical materials, so that historical records and present the side closest to the truth."

Moreover, oral history in the largest sense gives the creator of history, man, the subject status, and also gives the historical record vividness and more valuable Revelations for the future development of mankind." Wang Haiyan stressed,

"As far as I am concerned, after engaging in the above historical collection work, the biggest impact is that I have a desire to research and write about the history of amphibious herpetology in China,

and strongly suggest that the Chinese Academy of Sciences implement the oral history project to enrich the research results of the history of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,

and retain the ideological and technological achievements of scientific development and progress for mankind."Chinese paleontologist Zhang Yiman has been awarded the United Nations' World's Outstanding Female Scientist Award

The World's Leading Women Scientists award ceremony was held at the headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris.
Paleontologist Zhang Yiman, 82, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, shared the award with four other outstanding female scientists.
Zhang was given the citation for "her pioneering work in the fossil record, which has opened new insights into how aquatic vertebrates adapted to life on land."

Zhang has long been engaged in the study of comparative vertebrate morphology, paleoichthyology, meso-Cenozoic stratigraphy, paleogeography, paleoecology and biological evolution.

Her research results have refreshed people's understanding of the relationship between the Devonian overtip fish, lungfish and terrestrial vertebrates, and have been unanimously recognized in the field of paleontology research in the world.

She has also made remarkable achievements in the study of stratigraphic age and sedimentary environment of oil fields in eastern China.In 1995, Zhang received the second prize of the National Natural Science Award.

At the award ceremony, Zhang's speech was concise and humorous, and the five-minute speech appeared in French, English, Chinese, Russian and Swedish.

but did not mention what she had paid for scientific research in the past 60 years. But she especially thanked her daughter, "When she was only a month old, I gave her to her grandmother (grandmother), when I picked her up, she was 10 years old, but she never complained about it."

There was a burst of applause.China's fifth "World's Outstanding Female Scientist"

Established in 1998 by UNESCO and the L 'Oreal Foundation, the "World's Leading Women Scientists" award annually recognizes five women worldwide who have made outstanding contributions to the advancement of science.

The four scientists awarded this year with Zhang are Caroline Dean, a plant molecular biologist from the United Kingdom, Janet Rosan, a developmental biologist from Canada, Amy Austin, an ecological scientist from Argentina,and Heather Zahl, a medical specialist in children's health from South Africa.

According to UNESCO, only 28% of the world's scientific researchers are women, and the creation of the prize is aimed at breaking the gender "glass ceiling" in science.