Hou Xian-guang

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Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology
Yunnan UniversityThesis Bradoriid arthropods from the Lower Cambrian of South-west China  (1997)Author abbrev. (zoology)
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Hou Xian-guang (alternatively Xianguang;

Chengjiang biota, an assemblage of various life forms during the Cambrian Period.[4] The discovery of the Chengjiang biota, remarked as "among the most spectacular in this [20th] century",[5] added to the better understanding of how animal forms (different phyla) originated and evolved during the so-called Cambrian explosion.[6]

Among the recognitions Hou received are the Grand Prize of Natural Sciences (1997) from 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

Hou was born in

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

Hou is married to a school teacher Qing Liu with whom he has a daughter Min. He lives in Kumming, Yunnan.[1]

Books authored

  • 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

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

  1. ^ a b c d e "Hou, Xianguang 1949- (Hou Xian-Guang) | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
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  3. ^ Marshall, Michael (2022). "Some of the earliest complex animals were fossilised in a river delta". New Scientist. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
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  5. ^ a b c d e "Hou Xianguang". www.hlhl.org.cn. Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
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  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ "China Admissions". China Admissions. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
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  11. ^ Palmer, Douglas (2017). "The Geological Society of London - The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang, China". www.geolsoc.org.uk. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
  12. ^ Hui, Sun (2017-11-02). "Leading talents of Yunnan University". subsites.chinadaily.com.cn. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
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