Chinese palaeontologist Zhang Miman received her 2018 L'Oréal UNESCO For Women in Science award along with four other women scientists from South Africa, Britain, Argentina and Canada on Mar 23, 2018 Beijing local time.
According to UNESCO, Ms. Zhang won this award for “her pioneering work on fossil records leading to insights on how aquatic vertebrates adapted to life on land.”
At the awarding ceremony, Ms. Zhang delivered a five-minute-long presentation in French, English, Chinese, Russian and Swedish language, winning rounds of applause.
It is proud to say that Zhang Miman was closely related to Nantong and in the first half of 1950, she was studying in Nantong Middle School for the second semester of the third grade in junior high. She is definitely an outstanding one in all the prominent figures from the Chinese Academy of Sciences born in Nantong.
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Zhang Miman, also Meemann Chang, is a Chinese Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP).
In 1991 she was elected Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
In 2011 she was elected Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
In October 2016, she was awarded the highest honorary award by the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology: the Rommel Simpson Lifetime Achievement Award.
In 2018 she received the 2018 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award.
