Kenneth J. Hsu

Kenneth J. Hsu (zh-tsp|t=許靖華|s=许靖华|p= Xǔ Jìnghuá; born July 7, 1929)，is a scientist and geologist. He was born in Nanjing, China in 1929. He studied at the National Central University, Ohio State University, and University of California, Los Angeles. Hsu has been working with Swiss Federal Institute of Technology since 1963. He has received many prestigious awards including the Twenhofel Medal, Wollaston Medal and Penrose Medal. His most famous popular science works are "The Great Dying" and "The Mediterranean was a Desert" (which concerns his work deciphering the Messinian Salinity Crisis). He has spent extensive time working as a professor at ETH Zurich. He also published a book on his theory about the death of the famous musician Mozart, titled “Mozart, Amadeus and Magdalena”, with a Chinese translation titled “莫扎特的愛與死”. Cite web|url= http://product.dangdang.com/product.aspx?product_id=9239458|title=link to Chinese translation of his book on the death of Mozart|accessdate=2007-04-30] Cite web|url= http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/booksfile.php?item=0010198339
title=link to an earlier (2002) Chinese translation in traditional Chinese characters, with a title “阿瑪迪斯的愛與死”|accessdate=2007-04-30] Additionally, Hsu was the 1984 Bownocker Lecturer at Ohio State University. [http://library.osu.edu/sites/geology/Bownocker_History.php] He currently works at Nanjing University.

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