Hans Jörg Hofmann
Hans Jörg Hofmann (born October 3, 1936 in Kiel , † May 19, 2010 in Montreal ) was a German-born Canadian paleontologist who dealt in particular with microfossils from the Precambrian .
Hofmann moved from Germany to Canada and studied geology at McGill University , where he made his bachelor's degree in 1958 and his master's degree in 1959 and received his doctorate in 1962 under Thomas Henry Clark (1893-1996). He was a post-doctoral student at the University of Cincinnati for three years and then worked for the Geological Survey of Canada. From 1969 to 2000 he was a professor at the University of Montreal . He was then a researcher at the Redpath Museum and an adjunct professor at McGill University.
In 1995 he received the Willet G. Miller Medal of the Royal Society of Canada , which also accepted him as a member in 2002, and in 2002 the Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal of the National Academy of Sciences . The laudation mentioned his pioneering achievements in the discovery of fossils that illuminated the early days of life , from stromatolites of the Archean and cyanobacteria of the Proterozoic to the rise of multicellular organisms. To investigate, he also used computer methods, for example in image recognition and reconstruction. He examined the paleoecology of Precambrian microfossils and their use in stratigraphy and pursued the elucidation of dubious fossil remains (Dubiofossils).
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hofmann, Hans Jörg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 3, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiel |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 19, 2010 |
| Place of death | Montreal |