14 Facts About Ho-Kwang Mao

Ho-Kwang Mao is the director of the Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research in Shanghai, China.

Ho-Kwang Mao was a staff scientist at Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution for Science for more than 30 years.

Ho-Kwang Mao's father, General Mao Sen, was a high-ranking official of the intelligence department of the Republic of China.

When Ho-Kwang Mao was seven years old, he moved to Taiwan with his family, fleeing with the rest of the government of the Republic of China to the province.

Ho-Kwang Mao received his BS from National Taiwan University in 1963.

Ho-Kwang Mao further pursued his studies in the United States, and obtained MS in 1966 and PhD in 1968 from the University of Rochester, New York.

From 1968 to 1972, Ho-Kwang Mao did his postdoctoral research at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

In 2013, Ho-Kwang Mao founded Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research in his birthplace, Shanghai.

Ho-Kwang Mao takes the director role at the center and leads a group of international scientists to tackle world-class scientific challenges.

Ho-Kwang Mao's youngest daughter, Wendy Mao, is a professor of geological sciences at Stanford University.

Ho-Kwang Mao is one of the most prolific users of the diamond anvil cell for research at high pressures.

Ho-Kwang Mao is a pioneer in experimentally exploring the possible metallic hydrogen phase under high pressure.

Ho-Kwang Mao later published a review paper on transitions in solid hydrogen in 1994.

Ho-Kwang Mao discovered formation of FeO2Hx from goethite FeOOH or from iron-water reaction under Earth's lower mantle conditions.