Yang Zhongjian
Yang Zhongjian , also cited as CC (Chung Chien) Young ( Chinese 楊鍾健 / 杨 锺 健 ; born June 1, 1897 in Huaxian , Shaanxi ; † January 15, 1979 ), was a Chinese paleontologist . He is considered to be the founder of vertebrate paleontology in China.
Yang graduated from the University of Peking with a degree in geology in 1923 and received his doctorate in vertebrate paleontology from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in 1927 . From 1928 he worked for the Cenozoic Research Laboratory of the Geological Survey of China, founded by the Canadian Davidson Black , and was involved in excavations of the Peking people in Zhoukoudian (under the direction of Pei Wenzhong ). He was the founder of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, and also headed the Beijing Natural History Museum .
From 1933 until the 1970s he was responsible for major campaigns for dinosaur excavations in China. He described the early sauropods Yunnanosaurus , Lufengosaurus (both in the 1940s), the hadrosaur Tsintaosaurus (1958), the large sauropod Mamenchisaurus (1954) and the first stegosaur Chialingosaurus found in China (1958). He also worked on fossils of crocodiles, therapsids (a group of early mammalian relatives), and primitive mammals.
He is buried next to the Chinese pioneers in the excavation of the Peking Man, Jia Lanpo and Pei Whenzong. He was a member of the Linnean Society and was elected several times as a delegate to the Chinese People's Congress. He was an honorary member of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Moscow Paleontological Museum . In 1962 he became an honorary member of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology .
He has published over 400 scientific papers and three books.
Dong Zhiming is one of his students and employees .
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| SURNAME | Yang, Zhongjian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Young, CC |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 1, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Huaxian , Shaanxi |
| DATE OF DEATH | 15th January 1979 |