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Prof. Hung-Wen Ben Liu (劉鴻文教授)

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Prof. Hung-Wen Ben Liu (劉鴻文教授)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Prof. Hung-Wen Ben Liu
  • Chinese: 劉鴻文教授
  • Era: 1952
  • Geography: Taipei, Taiwan
  • Core roles: scientist, professor, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Prof. Hung-Wen (Ben) Liu 劉鴻文教授 – History of Taiwanese American (T.A. Archives) 台美史料中心

Education

  • Tunghai Univ. (東海大學) — 1974 — B.S., Chemistry
  • Columbia Univ. — 1978 — M.S., Chemistry — 1981 — Ph.D., Organic Chemistry

Employment

  • Univ. of Minnesota — Assistant Professor; Associate Professor; Professor; Distinguished Professor — (1984-2000) — Univ. of Texas at Austin — H. Hitchings Regents Chair in Drug Design, and Professor of Pharmacy and Chemistry — (2000-)

Family

No filled family fields on the TAH profile.

Role in the Community

  • Steward of movement memory: keeper of the History of Taiwanese American (T.A. Archives) 台美史料中心 collection, per his TAH profile — a archives/records role within the community, alongside his academic career (Univ. of Minnesota, UT Austin Hitchings Regents Chair).
  • Documented in the community record: 07).
  • NOTE: other corpus matches for “Ben Liu” (e.g. 288. Prof. Ben Liu 劉斌碩教授, 736. same) and the 2024 TJJ statement signer “Professor Ben Liu, President, Professor Chen Wen-Chen’s Memorial Foundation” refer to a different person, 劉斌碩 (prof-ben-liu) — not absorbed here.

Sources

SKIP-note (deepen-x slice 09190700-5, 2026-09-20): corpus re-grep hit set identical to records already linked above; no new absorbable corpus facts.

SKIP-note (deepen-x slice 09201500-15, 2026-09-21): corpus re-grep hit set identical to records already linked above; no new absorbable corpus facts.

SKIP-note (deepen-x slice 09211400-31, 2026-09-22): corpus re-grep hit set identical to records already linked above (own TAH #1784 record + index); no new absorbable corpus facts.

SKIP-note (deepen-x slice 09220900-29, 2026-09-23): corpus re-grep (劉鴻文|Hung-Wen) hit set identical again — only own TAH #1784 record + corpus index; no new absorbable corpus facts.

SKIP-note (deepen-x slice 09230400-24, 2026-09-24): corpus re-grep (劉鴻文|Hung-Wen) hit set identical again — own TAH #1784 record + corpus index only; no new absorbable corpus facts.

SKIP-note (deepen-x slice 09240400-11, 2026-09-25): corpus re-grep (劉鴻文|Hung-Wen) hit set identical again — own TAH #1784 record + corpus index only; no new absorbable corpus facts. (別名衝突已標注: 劉斌碩 Ben Liu ≠ 本人) SKIP-note (deepen-x slice 09260600-29, 2026-09-27): corpus re-grep (劉鴻文|Hung-Wen) hit set identical again — own TAH #1784 record + corpus index only; no new absorbable corpus facts.

SKIP-note (deepen-x slice 10051909-15, 2026-10-07): fresh 鴻文 grep across corpus returns only other persons — 陳鴻文 (journalist), 蔡鴻文 (politician), 劉斌碩 (Ben Liu, already flagged as different person above); no new material naming 劉鴻文 / Hung-Wen.

SKIP-note (deepen-x slice 10070400-24, 2026-10-08): re-verified — exact grep (劉鴻文 / Hung-Wen) across all five corpus dirs returns only own TAH #1784 record + index. The 台美史料中心 hits are institution-level records (newsletters, archive intro, concert listings) that name no person beyond the profile line already absorbed in Role in the Community; 鴻文 hits remain 陳鴻文/蔡鴻文/劉斌碩 — other persons. Verified-saturated; SKIP-no-new-facts.

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