Ho-kwang Mao
Ho-kwang Mao , called Dave (* 18th June 1941 in Shanghai ) is a from China originating American geoscientists . He is known for the development of high pressures with diamond anvil cells and simulated conditions such as those in the earth's interior for mineralogical investigations. He was the first to use diamond anvil cells to achieve pressures above 1 megabar.
His father was Mao Sen, lieutenant general and intelligence officer from Chiang Kai-shek . Mao moved to Taiwan with his family at the age of seven and graduated from Taiwan State University with a bachelor's degree in 1963. He then went to the United States at the University of Rochester , where he received his master’s degree in 1966 and his doctorate in 1968. He then went to the Carnegie Institution's geophysics laboratory in Washington, DC , where he stayed for the remainder of his career.
With Russell J. Hemley he gradually expanded the print area of the diamond anvil cell to pressures in the Earth's core (reaches about 1,986) and above and examined closely the behavior of hydrogen at high pressures.
In 1990 he received the Arthur L. Day Prize , in 2007 the Inge Lehmann Medal of the American Geophysical Union, in 2005 the Roebling Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America and in 2005 the Balzan Prize (with Russell J. Hemley ) and the Gregori Aminoff Prize the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1993), the Academia Sinica (1994), the Royal Society (2008) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1996). He is a Fellow of the Geochemical Society, the American Physical Society , the American Geophysical Union , the Mineralogical Society of America .
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- ↑ HKMao, Peter M.Bell, Science, Vol 191, 1976, pp 851-852
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| SURNAME | Mao, Ho-kwang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 18, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Shanghai |