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Prof. David Liu (劉如謙教授)

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Prof. David Liu (劉如謙教授)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Prof. David Liu
  • Chinese: 劉如謙教授
  • Era: 1973
  • Geography: Riverside, CA
  • Core roles: scientist, professor, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Harvard University Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology (1999-2003)

Education

  • Harvard Univ. — 1994 — B.S., Chemistry
  • U.C. Berkeley — 1999 — Ph.D.

Employment

  • Harvard University — Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology — (1999-2003) — Harvard University — Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology — (2003-2005) — Harvard University — Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology — (2005-)

Family

No filled family fields on the TAH profile.

Role in the Community

  • Named among the year’s most consequential scientists: the movement record preserves the 全球十大科學人物 selection — Nature’s 10, “Ten people who mattered this year,” David R. Liu 劉如謙, 2017 ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/winners58-natures-10|TAH #58, 2017-12-19]]).
  • Breakthrough Prize for gene editing: credited in the corpus for developing a new gene-editing technology to treat leukemia (base editing, 開發基因編輯新技術治白血病), honored with the Breakthrough Prize — 台裔劉如謙獲「突破獎」 ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/913-e9-96-8b-e7-99-bc-e5-9f-ba-e5-9b-a0-e7-b7-a8-e8-bc-af-e6-96-b0-e6-8a-80-e8-a|TAH #913, 2025-05-15]]).
  • Encyclopedia record: Who’s Who #1983 ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-1983-david-liu|TAH #1983, 2017-12-26]]).
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-23 (slice 09221000-30): hit set unchanged (Nature’s 10 #58, Breakthrough Prize #913, Who’s Who #1983, works index, Olympian memoir HOLD) — verified saturated, nothing new absorbable.
  • HOLD: conflict — the TA.org memoir 「On the Ice with David Liu」 (2009) concerns Olympian figure skater/choreographer David Liu (born Taiwan, Winter Olympics 1988/1992/1998), a different individual; never merge into this scientist’s record.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-24 (slice 09230900-16): fresh grep 劉如謙/David Liu returns the same set (#58 Nature’s 10, #913 Breakthrough Prize, #1983 Who’s Who, works index, Olympian-memoir HOLD) — verified-saturated, nothing new absorbable.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-25 (slice 09250317-12): fresh grep 劉如謙 / David Liu returns the same set (#58 Nature’s 10, #913 Breakthrough Prize, #1983 Who’s Who, works index, Olympian-memoir HOLD) — verified saturated; nothing new absorbable.
  • Corpus re-check 2026-09-26 (slice 09251527-2): fresh grep 劉如謙 / David Liu → same set (Nature’s 10 #58, Breakthrough Prize #913, Who’s Who #1983, index, Olympian-memoir HOLD). Index sibling #912 劉金智潔 (UC Berkeley) is a different person — not merged. Verified-saturated.

Sources

Corpus re-scan 2026-10-07 (deepen-x slice 10051340-21): fresh grep 劉如謙/David Liu/如謙 across all corpus dirs — same set (#58 Nature’s 10, #913 Breakthrough Prize, #1983 Who’s Who, index, Olympian-memoir HOLD). Verified-saturated; SKIP-deepen. Corpus re-grep 2026-10-08 (deepen-x slice 10070034-6): fresh grep 劉如謙 / David Liu / 如謙 across works/articles/sources/events/topics — same set (#58 Nature’s 10, #913 Breakthrough Prize, #1983 Who’s Who, works index, Olympian-memoir HOLD; index sibling #912 劉金智潔 = different person, not merged). Verified-saturated; SKIP-content.

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