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Prof. Kuo-Nan Liou (廖國男教授)

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Prof. Kuo-Nan Liou (廖國男教授)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Prof. Kuo-Nan Liou
  • Chinese: 廖國男教授
  • Era: 1944
  • Geography: Taiwan
  • Core roles: scientist, professor, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Founding Director, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering

Education

  • National Taiwan Univ. — 1965 — B.S.
  • New York Univ. — 1968 — M.S. — 1970 — Ph.D., Physics

Employment

  • Univ. of Utah — Associate Professor; Professor — (1975-1997) — Univ. of Utah — Director, Center for Atmospheric and Remote Sounding Studies — (1987-1997) — Univ. of Utah — Chairman, Dept. of Meteorology — (1996-1997) — Univ. of Utah — Adjunct Professor, Meteorology and Physics — (1997-2006) — Univ. of California, Los Angeles — Professor and Director, Institute of Radiation and Remote Sensing — (1997-2006) — Univ. of California, Los Angeles — Chair, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences — (2000-2004) — Univ. of California, Los Angeles — Founding Director, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering — (2006-)

Timeline

  • 1944 — Born (era)
  • 1965 — B.S., National Taiwan University
  • 1968 — M.S., New York University
  • 1970 — Ph.D. in Physics, New York University
  • 1975–1997 — University of Utah — Associate Professor, then Professor
  • 1987–1997 — Director, Center for Atmospheric and Remote Sounding Studies, University of Utah
  • 1996–1997 — Chairman, Department of Meteorology, University of Utah
  • 1997–2006 — University of California, Los Angeles — Professor and Director, Institute of Radiation and Remote Sensing (also Adjunct Professor, Meteorology and Physics)
  • 2000–2004 — Chair, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA
  • 2006– — Founding Director, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering (JIFRESSE)

Source: on-page TAH Who’s Who profile (TAH #1797).

Family

No filled family fields on the TAH profile.

Sources

Vault records (deepen pass 2026-09-10)

  • The vault preserves his TAH encyclopedia entry as [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-1797-kuo-nan-liou||TAH #1797: Prof. Kuo-Nan Liou 廖國男教授]].
  • A vault work page records his two highest honors in atmospheric science: the American Meteorological Society’s Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal (2018) and the Roger Revelle Medal (2013) — see Kuo-Nan Liou (廖國男).

Deepen — 2026-09-11 (vault-only re-check)

All existing wikilinks (TAH #1797 work page, Rossby/Revelle medals work page, TAH Foundation, source hub) re-verified against live vault slugs; no broken links. No further unabsorbed facts in cited vault records.

Deepen — 2026-09-14 (vault-only re-check)

Re-read the on-page TAH Employment/Education tables and the cited #1797 vault work record: every date and role is already mirrored in the Timeline. No new absorbable vault facts; no new pages created.

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Grep of works/ + articles/ returns only his two already-linked vault work pages (TAH #1797, Rossby/Revelle medals #44) and the works/index.md bibliographic lines. No memoir or newsletter narrative mentions him. SKIP: no new absorbable corpus material.

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全語料重掃（works/ + articles/）：命中僅已連結之本人書目頁 TAH #1797、勳章頁 #44（Rossby/Revelle）與 works/index。回憶錄語料無新事實——SKIP，無可吸收內容。

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命中集無變（僅 TAH #1797、Rossby/Revelle 勳章頁、works/index 條目行）。維持 SKIP，無可吸收之社群事實。

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命中集無變（僅 TAH #1797、Rossby/Revelle 勳章頁、works/index 條目行，皆已 wikilink）。維持 SKIP，無可吸收之社群事實。

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