Hoyuan Liu (劉和元)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Hoyuan Liu
  • Chinese: 劉和元
  • Era: 1931
  • Geography: Chiayi, Taiwan
  • Core roles: scientist, professor, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Education

  • National Taiwan Univ. — 1951-1955 — B.S., Phytopathology — 1957-1959 — M.S., Phytopathology
  • Univ. of Illinois-Urban Champaign — 1965-1969 — Ph.D., Phytopathology

Employment

  • JCRR (農復會) — Pest Specialist — (1959-1973) — National Taiwan Univ. — Professor — (1969-1973) — Univ. of Illinois-Urbana Champaign — Research Associate — (1973-1986)

Role in the Community

  • Plant-pathology scientist who moved from Taiwan’s agricultural reconstruction apparatus — JCRR (農復會) pest specialist, 1959 onward — into academia: National Taiwan University professor (1969–1973), then University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign research associate (1973–1986).
  • Represents the 1950s–60s generation of Taiwanese agricultural scientists trained at NTU who carried that expertise into U.S. universities.
  • Corpus footprint: the community record of his life is his own TAH Who’s Who entry, 2221. Hoyuan Liu 劉和元, published 2019-11-05 in the TAHS story corpus. No memoir or third-party community writings mentioning 劉和元 were found in the corpus (re-verified 2026-09-20 / 2026-09-22: only his own entry page and the works index match; SKIP-deepen — nothing absorbable beyond the TAH record).

Timeline

Family

  • Wife: |Mei Liu
  • Daughter: Lynn, Ann
  • Son: Tom, Albert

Sources

Corpus re-check (deepen-x 09221500-27, 2026-09-23): fresh grep of works/ + articles/ returns only own TAH records, the already-absorbed mention, or the works index — verified-saturated, nothing new absorbable.

Corpus re-check (deepen-x 09231000-12, 2026-09-25): fresh grep of works/ + articles/ (ZH+EN) returns only own TAH records, already-absorbed mentions, or the works index — verified-saturated, nothing new absorbable.