Hou Xian-guang
Hou Xian-guang | |
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Born | Fenxiang, Jiangsu Province, China | 26 March 1949
Nationality | Chinese |
Alma mater | Nanjing University (MSc) University of Uppsala (PhD) |
Known for | Chengjiang biota |
Spouse | Qing Liu |
Children | Min Hou |
Awards | Grand prize of Natural Sciences (1997) First-class Award of Natural Sciences (2003) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Palaeontology |
Institutions | Nanjing University Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology Yunnan University |
Thesis | Bradoriid arthropods from the Lower Cambrian of South-west China (1997) |
Author abbrev. (zoology) | Hou |
Hou Xian-guang (alternatively Xianguang; Chinese:
Among the recognitions Hou received are the Grand Prize of Natural Sciences (1997) from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the First-class Award of Natural Sciences (2003), one of the highest State Science and Technology Prizes of the People's Republic of China.[7] The Yunnan University claims that it "gained a worldwide reputation through the discovery and research [by Hou]."[8]
Biography
[edit]Hou was born in Fenxiang,[5] Jiangsu Province, China to a school teacher Kun Hou and his wife Rui Fen.[1] He completed his entire schooling at the First Middle School of Xuzhou City.[5] He studied BSc in geology at the Nanjing University from 1973 and completed it in 1977. Between 1977 and 1998 he worked as a lecturer of geology at Nanjing. Then he continued his MSc in paleontology and earned his master's degree in 1981.[7] Immediately after graduation he joined the faculty of Nanjing University as a geology teacher. He enrolled at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, in 1992 for a doctoral degree and obtained a Ph.D. in 1997.[7] His thesis was Bradoriid arthropods from the Lower Cambrian of South-west China[9] (later highlighted as A Monograph of the Bradoriid Arthropods from the Lower Cambrian of SW China[10]).
While Hou pursued his research in Sweden, he got promoted as associate professor in 1922 and then a professor in 1994.[5] He was appointed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences to become a geologist at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology in 1997. He transferred to the Yunnan University, in Kunming,[1] to take up the position of a professor of paleobiology and leads (as director) the Yunnan Key Laboratory for Paleobiology since 2000.[7]
Personal life
[edit]Hou is married to a school teacher Qing Liu with whom he has a daughter Min. He lives in Kunming, Yunnan.[1]
Books authored
[edit]- The Chengjiang Fauna: Exceptionally Well-preserved Fauna from 530 Million Years Ago (1999)[7]
- A Monograph of the Bradoriid Arthropods from the Lower Cambrian of SW China (2002)[10]
- The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang, China: The Flowering of Early Animal Life (first edition 2004,[2] second 2017)[11]
Awards and honours
[edit]Hou received the Grand Prize of Natural Sciences from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1997; the First-class Award of Natural Sciences, one of the highest State Science and Technology Prizes, from the Chinese State Council in 2003; the Paleontological Science Prize of China in 2004.[1] The Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation of Hong Kong awarded him its Paleontology and Archeology Prize in 2006,[5] and its Science and Technology Innovation Award with recognition as among the "Leading Scientific and Technological Talents of Yunnan" in 2017.[12]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "Hou, Xianguang 1949- (Hou Xian-Guang) | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
- ^ a b Luo, Zhe-Xi (2004). "A window on early animal evolution". Nature. 430 (6998): 405. doi:10.1038/430405a. ISSN 0028-0836.
- ^ Marshall, Michael (2022). "Some of the earliest complex animals were fossilised in a river delta". New Scientist. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
- ^ Briggs, Derek E. G. (2015). "Extraordinary fossils reveal the nature of Cambrian life: a commentary on Whittington (1975) 'The enigmatic animal Opabinia regalis , Middle Cambrian, Burgess Shale, British Columbia'". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 370 (1666): 20140313. doi:10.1098/rstb.2014.0313. PMC 4360120. PMID 25750235.
- ^ a b c d e "Hou Xianguang". www.hlhl.org.cn. Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
- ^ Shu, D.-G.; Conway Morris, S.; Zhang, Z.-F.; Han, J. (2010). "The earliest history of the deuterostomes: the importance of the Chengjiang Fossil-Lagerstatte". Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 277 (1679): 165–174. doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.0646. ISSN 1471-2954. PMC 2842668. PMID 19439437.
- ^ a b c d e Zhang, Maoyin (2018-09-23). "HOU Xian-guang-
云 南 省 古 生物 研究 重点 实验室 ". www.yklp.ynu.edu.cn. Yunnan University. Retrieved 2023-03-23. - ^ "China Admissions". China Admissions. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
- ^ Xian-Guang, Hou (1999). "New rare bivalved arthropods from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang fauna, Yunnan, China". Journal of Paleontology. 73 (1): 102–116. doi:10.1017/S002233600002758X. ISSN 0022-3360. JSTOR 1306748. S2CID 88183296.
- ^ a b Xian-guang, Hou; Siveter, David J.; Williams, Mark; Xiang-hong, Feng (2001). "A monograph of the Bradoriid arthropods from the Lower Cambrian of SW China". Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences. 92 (3): 347–409. doi:10.1017/S0263593300000286. ISSN 0263-5933. S2CID 131412831.
- ^ Palmer, Douglas (2017). "The Geological Society of London - The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang, China". www.geolsoc.org.uk. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
- ^ Hui, Sun (2017-11-02). "Leading talents of Yunnan University". subsites.chinadaily.com.cn. Retrieved 2023-03-23.