Kuo-Nan Liou (; born 16 November 1944) is a
Taiwanese American
Taiwanese Americans () are Americans who carry full or partial ancestry from Taiwan. This includes American-born citizens who descend from migrants from Taiwan.
As of the 2010 U.S. Census, 49% of Taiwanese Americans lived in the state of Califo ...
meteorologist.
Biography
Liou was born in
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
on November 16, 1944. After graduating from
National Taiwan University
National Taiwan University (NTU; ) is a public research university in Taipei, Taiwan.
The university was founded in 1928 during Japanese rule as the seventh of the Imperial Universities. It was named Taihoku Imperial University and served d ...
in 1965, he pursued advanced studies in the United States, earning his doctor's degree in physics from
New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin.
In 1832, the ...
. He did post-doctoral research at
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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NASA was established in 1958, succeeding th ...
(NASA). He was a professor at
University of Utah
The University of Utah (U of U, UofU, or simply The U) is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the flagship institution of the Utah System of Higher Education. The university was established in 1850 as the University of De ...
since 1975. He joined the faculty of
University of California, Los Angeles
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in 1997 and was promoted to director of Department of Atmospheric and Marine Sciences in 2000. He was elected a fellow of the
National Academy of Engineering
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(NAE)in 1999 and a fellow of the
Academia Sinica
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in 2004. In 2006 he was appointed the first dean of the newly founded Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering. He was elected a foreign member of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences
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on November 28, 2017.
Awards
* 1998
Jule G. Charney Award, for his pioneering work in the theory and application of radiative transport and its interaction with clouds.
* 2010 William Nordberg Medal
* 2013
Roger Revelle Medal
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* 2018
Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal
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References
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1944 births
Taiwanese scientists
Living people
National Taiwan University alumni
New York University alumni
Foreign members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
Members of Academia Sinica
American meteorologists
Taiwanese emigrants to the United States