演講嘉賓介紹(三)

  王五一博士、美國寶石學院(Gemological Institute of America, GIA)副總裁

  王五一博士，畢業于北京大學地學系本科獲得學士學位；后留學日本筑波大學，獲得博士學位。獲得日本學術振興會研究獎學金于日本東京理工大學進行博士后研究，而后前往美國紐約大學石溪分校繼續博士后研究。

  2000年進入美國寶石學院，對于鉆石地質學、鉆石合成、鉆石優化處理與鑒定有20年的研究經驗。目前任美國寶石學院副總裁負責研究與發展工作。

  GIA is uniquely poised to conduct gemological research on a scale that few other organizations can match. Nonprofit GIA continually reinvests its revenues into its research efforts, maintaining fully equipped, state of the art research facilities in Carlsbad (California), New York City, Bangkok and Antwerp. The Institute has unique access to gem-producing localities and a wide range of gem materials, including a database representing the hundreds of thousands of items that are submitted to its laboratories for analysis each year. GIA researchers have academic training from major universities, combined with many years of laboratory experience in gem identification. In conducting gem research, they use a variety of advanced scientific instruments, and collaborate globally with researchers from other facilities, such as the Smithsonian Natural History Museum and the Carnegie Institute in Washington, D.C..

  GIA research efforts serve to protect all who buy or sell gems by:

  Ensuring accurate and unbiased global standards for determining gem quality

  Establishing the grading and identification methods and best practices GIA uses in its laboratories

  Informing the curricula of GIAs professional training courses and programs

  Developing practical instruments and tools to improve detection at point of sale

  A wide of range of gem material – both natural and synthetic - can be found in the marketplace today. There are also a number of natural gems that have been treated to improve their color or appearance. These products have become increasingly sophisticated, and details of the growth or treatment process are not always revealed, a situation that compounds the difficulty of gem identification.

  GIA research efforts include the characterization of natural gem materials to understand gem formation, trace element chemistry, causes of color, and geographic origin when possible. Key focus areas include treatment detection and the separation of natural from synthetic gem material.

  GIA 具有獨特的準備，能夠以其他組織無法比得的尺度進行寶石學研究。非營利 GIA 不斷將其收入再投資于其研究工作，在卡爾斯巴德(加利福尼亞州)、紐約市、曼谷和安特衛普維護設備齊全、最先進的研究設施。該研究所擁有獨特的寶石產地和廣泛的寶石材料，包括一個數據庫，該數據庫表示每年提交給其實驗室進行分析的數十萬件物品。GIA 研究人員擁有來自主要大學的學術培訓，并結合了多年的寶石鑒定實驗室經驗。在進行寶石研究時，他們使用各種先進的科學儀器，并與其他設施，如史密森尼自然歷史博物館和華盛頓特區的卡內基研究所的研究人員進行全球合作。

  GIA 的研究工作有助于保護所有購買或銷售寶石的人：

  確保準確和公正的全球標準，以確定寶石質量

  建立 GIA 在其實驗室中的分級和鑒定方法和最佳實踐

  為 GIA 專業培訓課程和 課程的課程提供信息

  開發實用的工具和工具，改進銷售點檢測

  如今，市場上可以發現各種各樣的寶石材料，包括天然和合成寶石。也有一些天然寶石已被處理，以改善其顏色或外觀。這些產品變得越來越復雜，生長或處理過程的細節并不總是被揭示出來，這種情況加劇了寶石鑒定的難度。

  GIA 的研究工作包括天然寶石材料的特征化，以了解寶石的形成、微量元素化學、顏色原因以及地理來源(如果可能)。重點領域包括處理檢測和天然寶石材料與合成寶石材料的分離。