Hu Chengzhi
Hu Chengzhi | |
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Born | |
Died | 12 April 2018 | (aged 100)
Nationality | Chinese |
Known for | Plaster casts of Peking Man Identification of Yuanmou Man Discovery of Keichousaurus |
Academic background | |
Influences | Davidson Black and Franz Weidenreich |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Paleontology |
Sub-discipline | Paleoanthropology and palaeoarchaeology |
Institutions | Peking Union Medical College, Ministry of Geology and Geological Museum of China |
Hu Chengzhi (Chinese:
Hu left school at 13 owing to poverty, and worked at Peking Union Medical College as Davidson Black's assistant. After Black died in 1934, Hu became an apprentice technician for fixing fossils at Franz Weidenreich's laboratory. He made cast copies of Peking Man's skull, and he was the last Chinese eyewitness of the Peking Man fossils, before they were lost during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Hu resigned from the institute in 1947. In the early 1950s, he began to work at the Ministry of Geology.[1]
Hu died in Beijing on 12 April 2018, aged 100.[4]
References
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胡 承 志 与 "北京 人 "化石 ". Guangming Daily (in Chinese). - ^ Hu, Chengzhi (1973). "
云 南元 谋发现的猿 人 牙 齿化石 " [Ape-man Teeth from Yuanmou, Yunnan].地 质学报 [Acta Geologica Sinica] (in Chinese) (1): 67–73. - ^ Hu, Chengzhi (1973). "
山 东诸城 巨 型 鸭嘴龙化石 " [A New Hadrosaur from the Cretaceous of Chucheng, Shantung].地 质学报 [Acta Geoscientia Sinica] (in Chinese) (2): 111–122. - ^ "
古 生物 学 家 胡 承 志 辞世 享年 101岁".北京 晚 报 [Beijing Evening News]. Archived from the original on 2018-04-18. Retrieved 2018-04-17.