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Yang Zhongjian (
Chinese: 杨钟健) (
1897-
1979),
courtesy name (Zi) Keqiang (克强), also known as C.C. (Chung Chien) Young, was one of China's foremost paleontologists. He has been called the 'Father of Chinese vertebrate paleontology'. He was born in Huaxian,
Shaanxi province.
Yang graduated from the Geological department of
Beijing University in
1923 and in
1927 received his doctorate at Munich University in Germany. In
1928 he worked for the
Cenozoic Research Laboratory of the
Geological Survey of China and took charge of the excavation at
Peking Man Site in
Zhoukoudian.
He had professorial posts at the Geological Survey, Beijing University, and Northwest University of Xi'an. Yang's scientific work was instrumental in the creation of China's
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in
Beijing, which houses one of the most important collections in the world. He was director of both the IVPP and the Beijing Natural History Museum.
He supervised the collection and research of dinosaurs in
China from
1933 into the 1970s. He presided over some of the most important fossil discoveries in history, such as the
prosauropods
Lufengosaurus and
Yunnanosaurus, the
Ornithopod Tsintaosaurus, and the gigantic
sauropod Mamenchisaurus, as well as China's first
stegosaur Chialingosaurus.
His cremated remains are buried at Zhoukoudian beside those of his collegues
Pei Wenzhong and
Jia Lanpo.
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