Ban Gu

Also known as Gu Ban

Chinese historian, politician and poet (AD 32–92)

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5 total works indexed

Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China
· 2020 · cited 36,471x
fastp: an ultra-fast all-in-one FASTQ preprocessor
· 2018 · cited 26,237x
Clinical course and risk factors for mortality of adult inpatients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective cohort study
· 2020 · cited 21,345x
Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,519x
The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,178x

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Born: AD 32, Anling, Fufeng County, Han dynasty , (now Xianyang , Shaanxi )
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Alternative Chinese name Traditional Chinese孟堅 Simplified Chinese孟坚 Literal meaning孟(first of siblings)堅(sturdy, similar meaning to given name "固")

Ban Gu (AD 32–92) was a Chinese historian, poet, and politician best known for his part in compiling the Book of Han, the second of China's 24 dynastic histories. He also wrote a number of fu, a major literary form, part prose and part poetry, which is particularly associated with the Han era. A number of Ban's fu were collected by Xiao Tong in the Wen Xuan.