Zhou Youguang

Chinese linguist, sinologist (1906–2017)

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Image quality assessment: from error visibility to structural similarity
· 2004 · cited 48,715x
fastp: an ultra-fast all-in-one FASTQ preprocessor
· 2018 · cited 26,243x
Clinical course and risk factors for mortality of adult inpatients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective cohort study
· 2020 · cited 21,346x
A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin
· 2020 · cited 17,287x
Image-to-Image Translation with Conditional Adversarial Networks
· 2017 · cited 15,406x

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Born: Zhou Yaoping , ( 1906-01-13 ) 13 January 1906, Changzhou , Jiangsu, China

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Birth name Chinese周耀平

Zhou Youguang (Chinese: 周有光; pinyin: Zhōu Yǒuguāng, born Zhou Yaoping; 13 January 1906 – 14 January 2017), also known as Chou Yu-kuang or Chou Yao-ping, was a Chinese economist, linguist, sinologist, and supercentenarian. He has been credited as the father of pinyin, the most popular romanization system for Chinese, which was adopted by the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1958, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in 1982, and the United Nations in 1986.