Hou Xian-guang

Hou was born in Fenxiang, (later highlighted as A Monograph of the Bradoriid Arthropods from the Lower Cambrian of SW China). While Hou pursued his research in Sweden, he got promoted as associate professor in 1922 and then a professor in 1994. He was appointed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences to become a geologist at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology in 1997. He transferred to the Yunnan University, in Kunming, to take up the position of a professor of paleobiology and leads (as director) the Yunnan Key Laboratory for Paleobiology since 2000. Personal life Hou is married to a school teacher Qing Liu with whom he has a daughter Min. He lives in Kunming, Yunnan. == Books authored ==

• The Chengjiang Fauna: Exceptionally Well-preserved Fauna from 530 Million Years Ago (1999) == Awards and honours ==

Hou received the Grand Prize of Natural Sciences from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1997; the First-class Award of Natural Sciences, one of the highest State Science and Technology Prizes, from the Chinese State Council in 2003; the Paleontological Science Prize of China in 2004. == References ==