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<strong>北京大学</strong>英语新闻网/<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />

By Li Guanyu<br />

By Li Guanyu<br />

<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong>, Beijing, April 15th, 2005:The 1995 Nobel Prize for Chemistry<br />

winner Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Paul Crutzen, accompanied with his wife, visited <strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />

this week and would stay here for the next couple <strong>of</strong> days. The College <strong>of</strong><br />

Environment Science held the ceremony <strong>of</strong> awarding Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Crutzen honorary<br />

pr<strong>of</strong>essorship <strong>of</strong> <strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong> in the Sunshine Lecture Hall in Yingjie<br />

Communication Center Wednesday morning. Principal <strong>of</strong> <strong>PKU</strong> Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Xu Zhihong<br />

attended the ceremony and gave a welcoming lecture at the beginning <strong>of</strong> it. After<br />

Pr<strong>of</strong>. Crutzen was given the certificate and received bouquet, he made a lecture<br />

viewing the situations <strong>of</strong> environment science.<br />

The lecture first presented a series <strong>of</strong> statistics indicating the vast change <strong>of</strong><br />

population <strong>of</strong> both human and livestock during the past 3 centuries. Then Pr<strong>of</strong>.<br />

Crutzen put forward the idea <strong>of</strong> ―Man the Eroder‖. He stated that since the beginning<br />

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