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Japanese palaeontologist

Hasegawa Yoshikazu
長谷川善和
Born12 March 1930
Iida, Nagano Prefecture
NationalityJapanese
OccupationPalaeontologist
In this Japanese name, the surname is Hasegawa.

Hasegawa Yoshikazu (長谷川善和) (born 1930) is a Japanese vertebrate palaeontologist and honorary museum director. The Pleistocene anatid Shiriyanetta hasegawai was named in his honour, in recognition of his "outstanding contributions" to the field.

Biography

Born in Iida, Nagano Prefecture in 1930, Hasegawa graduated from Yokohama National University in 1955, earning his doctorate from the University of Tokyo with a study of Palaeoloxodon naumanni in 1972. Part-time lecturer at various times at Yokohama National University, the University of Tokyo, Hiroshima University, Kyoto University, Nagoya University, Shizuoka University, Tohoku University, and the University of the Ryukyus, as well as Researcher and Senior Researcher at the National Science Museum, Tokyo, from 1979 until his retirement in 1995 he was Professor at Yokohama National University. In 1996, he became the first director of Gunma Museum of Natural History. He has also contributed to the operations and displays at Iida City Museum, Iwaki City Coal & Fossil Museum, Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History, Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History, Mine City Museum of History and Folklore (美祢市歴史民俗資料館), and Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba. Internationally, he has been involved in research in Europe, the Americas, Madagascar, Ethiopia, the Soviet Union, China, South Korea, and Australia. His work has had a particular emphasis on dinosaurs and palaeornithology.

See also

References

  1. ^ 長谷川 善和 [Hasegawa Yoshikazu] (in Japanese). Yokohama National University. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
  2. 名誉館長の紹介 長谷川善和 [Introduction to the Honorary Director: Hasegawa Yoshikazu] (in Japanese). Gunma Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
  3. Watanabe Junya; Matsuoka Hiroshige (2015). "Flightless diving duck (Aves, Anatidae) from the Pleistocene of Shiriya, northeast Japan". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (6). doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.994745. ISSN 0272-4634. JSTOR 24740211. e994745.
  4. 長谷川善和氏 [Hasegawa Yoshikazu] (in Japanese). Mammal Society of Japan. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
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