Hans J. Hofmann

Hans Jörg Hofmann ( born October 3, 1936 in Kiel, † 19 May, 2010 Montreal ) was a German-born Canadian paleontologist who dealt in particular with microfossils of the Precambrian.

Hofmann moved from Germany to Canada and studied geology at McGill University, where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1958 and his master's degree in 1959 and 1962 by Thomas Henry Clark ( 1893-1996 ) received his doctorate. As a post - graduate student, he spent three years at the University of Cincinnati and worked for the Geological Survey of Canada. From 1969 to 2000 he was a professor at the University of Montreal. After that, he was a scientist in the Redpath Museum and Adjunct Professor at McGill University.

In 1995 he received the Willet G. Miller Medal of the Royal Society of Canada and 2002 the Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal of the National Academy of Sciences. In the award were his pioneering work in the discovery of fossils, which mentions the early period of life illuminated, multicellular stromatolites from the Archean and Proterozoic cyanobacteria until the rise of organisms. To study he applied and computer methods for example in image recognition and reconstruction. He examined the paleoecology of Precambrian microfossils and their use in stratigraphy and followed the Enlightenment dubious fossil remains ( Dubiofossilien ).