Yang Zhongjian

Yang Zhongjian, also known as C. C. (Chung Chien ) Young quotes (Chinese杨钟健/杨 锺 健, born June 1, 1897 in Huaxian, Shaanxi; † 15 January 1979), was a Chinese paleontologist. He is regarded as the founder of vertebrate paleontology in China.

Yang made ​​in 1923 with a degree in geology at the University of Peking in 1927 and his PhD at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich in vertebrate paleontology. From 1928 he worked for, founded by the Canadian Davidson Black Cenozoic Research Laboratory of the Geological Survey of China and has been involved in excavations of the Peking Man at Zhoukoudian (conducted by 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 Museum of Natural History.

He was responsible for major campaigns for dinosaur excavations in China from 1933 until the 1970s. He described the early sauropods Yunnanosaurus, Lufengosaurus (both in the 1940s ), the hadrosaur Tsintaosaurus (1958), the large sauropods Mamenchisaurus (1954 ) and the first found in China, Stegosaurus Chialingosaurus (1958). He also worked on fossils of crocodiles, therapsids (a group of early mammalian relatives ) and primitive mammals.

It is located next to the Chinese pioneers of the excavation of Peking Man, Jia Pei Whenzong Lanpo and buried. He was a member of the Linnean Society, and was repeatedly elected as a delegate to the Chinese People's Congress. He was an honorary member of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Paleontological Museum Moscow. In 1962 he became an honorary member of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.

He has published over 400 scientific papers and three books.

Among his students and staff counts Dong Zhiming.