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Prof. Anthony T. Tu (杜祖健教授)

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Prof. Anthony T. Tu (杜祖健教授)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Prof. Anthony T. Tu
  • Chinese: 杜祖健教授
  • Era: 1930
  • Geography: Taipei, Taiwan
  • Core roles: scientist, professor, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Accomplishment

  1. Lifetime Achievement Award from Indian Society of Toxinology 2013

Education

  • National Taiwan Univ. — 1953 — B.S., Chemistry
  • Univ. of Notre Dame — 1956 — M.S., Chemistry
  • Stanford Univ. — 1961 — Ph.D., Biochemistry

Employment

  • Colorado State University — Professor Emeritus — (1998-) — Colorado State University, Fort Collins — Professor — (1967-1998) — University of Utah — Assistant Professor — (1962-1967)

Family

  • Wife: Kazuko Yamamoto Tu
  • Daughter: Marcia, Caroline, Janice
  • Son: Kenneth, Alan

Vault records (deepen pass 2026-09-14)

Absorbed from vault pages already naming him (no web):

  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/11-gold-rays-with-neck-ribbon-2009||TAH #11: Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon 旭日中綬章 / 2009]] — Japan’s 旭日中綬章 decoration conferred on him in 2009.
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/collection-of-prof-anthony-t-tu||TAH #60: Collection of Prof. Anthony T. Tu 杜祖健教授的收藏 / 2018-02]] — his personal collection held/documented by TAH.
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories724||TAH #724: 奔流的樹葉：序言 / 杜祖健 / 2020-03]] — his own essay (序言) in the TAH story corpus.
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/senior-taiwanese-american-2||TAH senior directory #2: Prof. T. Anthony Tu (杜祖健教授)]] — his entry in the 北加州台灣長輩會 senior directory, i.e. he is a listed member of |Senior Taiwanese Association of Northern California.
  • Additional TAH encyclopedia records: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/4-prof-t-anthony-tu||#4]] and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-812-anthony-t-tu||#812]].
  • His own writings in the story corpus (deepen 09141213-16): [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/publications1110||TAH #1110: Nomadic Academic Life of a Professor / 自傳 (2009)]] — his autobiographical essay; [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories555||TAH #555: Reflection of Prof. Anthony T. Tu’s Life (2017-07)]] — a later life-reflection piece; [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/publications1339||TAH #1339: 奔流的樹葉 / 自傳 (2020-03)]] — his 2020 autobiography (companion/fuller record of the 序言 already linked as #724). Three self-authored memoir records spanning 2009–2020 make him one of the corpus’s better-documented senior scientists.

Role in the Community (deepen slice 09141400-9, corpus pass)

Further self-authored records in the TAH story corpus surface his public intellectual engagement beyond academia:

Deepen-X re-check (slice 10110315-11, 2026-10-12): a fresh ZH+EN grep (杜祖健 / Anthony T. Tu / Anthony Tu / T. Anthony Tu) across works/articles/sources/events/topics returns the identical hit set — 15 work records + works/index.md + the sources/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org backlink — all already linked above. No new corpus material, no conflicts to HOLD.

  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/publications1104||TAH #1104: A Medal from the Japanese Emperor (2010-05)]] — his own account of the 2009 旭日中綬章 decoration already recorded above.
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/publications1106||TAH #1106: Chemical Terrorism — Horrors in Tokyo Subway and Matsumoto City (2002)]] — his toxinology expertise applied publicly to the sarin attacks.
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/publications1240||TAH #1240: サリン事件死刑囚 中川智正との対話 (2018-07)]] — his dialogue with Aum sarin-matter death-row inmate Tomomasa Nakagawa, continuing the #1106 thread.
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/publications1241||TAH #1241: 沖縄と台湾を愛したジョージ・H・カー先生の思い出 / 比嘉辰雄 杜祖健 (2018-03)]] — co-authored reminiscence of George H. Kerr with Higa Tatsuo.
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/publications1105||TAH #1105: In Loving Memory of Kazuko Yamamoto Tu (2013-08)]] — his own memoir piece for his wife (Family above), which places her death by 2013-08; existing Family field lists her without dates, so no conflict to HOLD.
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/publications1239||TAH #1239: Chemical and Biological Weapons and Terrorism / Anthony Tu (2018-08-23)]] — his 2018 book-length work on chemical/biological weapons, extending the toxinology-public-engagement thread of #1106 (Tokyo Subway/Matsumoto sarin) and #1240 (Nakagawa dialogue) into a consolidated 2018 publication.

Timeline

  • 1930 — born in Taipei (Era per TAH directory)
  • 1953 — B.S. (Chemistry), National Taiwan Univ.
  • 1956 — M.S. (Chemistry), Univ. of Notre Dame
  • 1961 — Ph.D. (Biochemistry), Stanford Univ.
  • 1962–1967 — Assistant Professor, University of Utah
  • 1967–1998 — Professor, Colorado State University (Fort Collins); Professor Emeritus from 1998
  • 2009 — 旭日中綬章 (Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon)
  • 2013 — Lifetime Achievement Award, Indian Society of Toxinology
  • 2018-08-23 — published Chemical and Biological Weapons and Terrorism (TAH #1239)

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