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An Yin was born on 24 June, 1959 in Harbin, China, is an Earth scientist (1959–2023). Discover An Yin's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 64 years old?

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Age 64 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 24 June 1959
Birthday 24 June
Birthplace Harbin, China
Date of death 12 July, 2023
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Nationality United States

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1959

An Yin (June 24, 1959 – July 12, 2023) was a Chinese-American earth scientist and a Distinguished Professor of Geology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

His early work explores the mechanical origin and kinematic evolution of low-angle normal faults and thrust systems in the North American Cordillera.

He is perhaps best known for his work on the tectonic evolution of the Himalayas and Tibetan plateau.

His research interests shifted in later years to slow-earthquake mechanics, early Earth tectonics, and planetary studies.

Yin was born in the city of Harbin, in northeastern China.

1966

His parents were medical school professors and were sent to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976 in China.

Yin spent part of his early life living in a small village with his parents during this time.

His experience during the Cultural Revolution profoundly shaped his later life.

1978

Despite the lack of systematic education in his elementary, middle, and high schools resulting from numerous disruptions in life during the Cultural Revolution, Yin managed to pass the nationwide university examination in China and entered the Peking University in 1978.

1982

He graduated in 1982 with a B.S. degree in Geomechanics and stayed on for one year in an M.S. program studying Precambrian geology of northern China under the supervision of Professor Xianglin Qian at the Peking University.

1983

He came to the United States in 1983 without finishing his M.S. degree in China.

From 1983 to 1987, Yin pursued his Ph.D. degree in geology at the University of Southern California (USC) under the supervision of Professor Gregory A. Davis.

1987

In 1987, Yin was offered a tenure track acting assistant professor position at UCLA, one year before he officially obtained his doctoral degree from USC.

1988

At UCLA, he was appointed assistant professor in 1988, promoted to associate professor in 1993, and in 1996 became a full professor.

Yin's research was focused on studying how mountains are created and destroyed on Earth and other solar-system bodies.

His work on Earth was field-based, which starts with making detailed geologic maps and ends with the construction of kinematic and mechanical models of the evolution of Earth's lithosphere.

Based on analysis of satellite images and comparison against similar geologic settings from the Earth such as the western Pacific subduction system, Yin proposed a hypothesis that a primitive form of plate tectonics, expressed as local plate boundary processes involving thermal-boundary-layer recycling by impact-induced slab rollback, may have been responsible for the formation of the Tharsis rise on Mars.

His proposed primitive plate tectonics differs from the modern plate tectonics on Earth, which operates over the entire planet.

1992

In 1992, Yin met Sandy, a Chinese American who was born in Hong Kong.

1994

In 1994, Yin was awarded the Donath Medal from the Geological Society of America (GSA).

1997

They were married in 1997 and had two children.

Yin died on July 12, 2023, at the age of 64.

2008

Paul A. Kapp, a professor of geology at the University of Arizona and a former PhD student of Yin, was the 2008 recipient of the Donath Medal from the Geological Society of America.

2013

He became a fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2013, and in 1994 became a GSA fellow.

Yin was the 2022 recipient of the Penrose Medal from the Geological Society of America.

Yin was an editor-in-chief for Tectonophysics and Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

2017

Jessica Watkins, an astronaut selected in the NASA class of 2017, was one of his former Ph.D. students.