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Prof. Ming Chiang Lin (林明璋教授)

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Prof. Ming Chiang Lin (林明璋教授)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Prof. Ming Chiang Lin
  • Chinese: 林明璋教授
  • Era: —
  • Geography: Hsinchu, Taiwan
  • Core roles: scientist, professor, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Prof. Ming Chiang Lin 林明璋教授 – History of Taiwanese American (T.A. Archives) 台美史料中心

Education

  • National Taiwan Normal Univ. — 1959 — B.S., Chemistry
  • Univ. of Ottawa — 1965 — Ph.D., Chemistry

Employment

  • National Chiao Tung University — Professor in Molecular Science Research Center — (2003-) — Emory University — Professor, Director — (1988-2002) — United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) — Director of Chemical Kinetics Group

Role in the Community

  • Part of the first generation of Taiwanese graduate students and researchers in the Washington, D.C. area. The community memoir Our Journeys 138 recalls him among the Taiwanese researchers at NIH-level national institutions (with 楊基焜, 黃泰郎, and 黃崑巖, later founder of NCKU’s medical college) — young first-generation pioneers, mostly around 30, living simply in apartments and forming the backbone of the early Taiwanese American community near D.C.
  • Directed the Chemical Kinetics Group at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and received the Navy’s highest research honor, the 1998 Captain Robert Dexter Conrad Award: Captain Robert Dexter Conrad Award by U.S. Navy, 1998 and TAH award record 30.
  • HOLD: conflict in Chinese name — this page and most records use 林明璋, while the award record title winners30 renders 林明彰教授. Not auto-merged.

Family

No filled family fields on the TAH profile.

Sources

  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/124-prof-ming-chiang-lin||TAH #124 林明璋教授傳記]]
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-1416-ming-chiang-lin||TAH #1416 林明璋教授傳記]]
  • |TAH Foundation
  • |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org

Corpus re-grep (2026-09-16)

  • SKIP: 再grep語料僅見已吸收之 ourjourneys-138（華府第一代研究者回憶）、conrad award 頁、winners30 及 works index，無新語料可吸收；HOLD（林明璋 vs 林明彰）維持。
  • slice 09160600-21 覆核：命中集合不變（自身書目 1416、ourjourneys-138、winners30、conrad award 頁、index），無新增社群材料。
  • slice 09160700-17 覆核：新增一枚獎章書目 1998（已在「Role in the Community」引用）；該頁作 林明璋，winners30 作 林明彰 — HOLD 維持，不併字。此外命中僅自身書目 1416、ourjourneys-138 與 works index，無新社群材料。
  • slice 09162138-11 覆核（2026-09-16）：命中集合不變（#124、#1416、ourjourneys-138、winners30、conrad award 頁、index），全數已吸收並連結；HOLD（林明璋 vs 林明彰）維持。SKIP-no-new-material。
  • slice 09162200-8 覆核（2026-09-16）：命中集合不變（#124、#1416、ourjourneys-138、winners30、conrad award 頁、index），無新社群材料；HOLD（林明璋 vs 林明彰）維持。SKIP-no-new-material。
  • slice 09170130-5 覆核（2026-09-17）：命中集合不變（#124、#1416、ourjourneys-138、winners30、conrad award 頁、index），全數已吸收並連結；HOLD（林明璋 vs 林明彰）維持。SKIP-no-new-material。
  • slice 09170500-3 recheck (2026-09-17): hit set unchanged (#124, #1416, ourjourneys-138, winners30, conrad award page, works index), all already absorbed and linked; HOLD (林明璋 vs 林明彰) maintained. SKIP-no-new-material.
  • slice 09180131-2 recheck (2026-09-18): hit set unchanged (#124, #1416, ourjourneys-138, winners30, conrad award page, works index), all already absorbed and linked; HOLD (林明璋 vs 林明彰) maintained. SKIP-no-new-material.
  • slice 09181500-1 recheck (2026-09-20): hit set unchanged (#124, #1416, ourjourneys-138, winners30, conrad award page, works index), all already absorbed and linked; HOLD (林明璋 vs 林明彰) maintained. SKIP-no-new-material.
  • slice 10090500-29 recheck (2026-10-10): full 5-dir grep (林明璋/林明彰/Ming Chiang Lin) — hit set unchanged. Broad 明璋/明彰 sweep found only false positives: 黃明彰 in ourjourneys253 (1990 Census committee member, different person) and 利明璋 (Bill Bishop) in taiwanjustice articles. No new community material; HOLD maintained. SKIP-verified-saturated.
  • slice 10101322-17 recheck (2026-10-11): full 5-dir grep (林明璋/林明彰/Ming Chiang Lin) + broad 明璋/明彰 sweep — hit set unchanged (#124, #1416, ourjourneys-138, winners30, conrad award page, works index, sources page), all already absorbed and linked. Sweep hits in taiwanjustice articles are false positives (利明璋/Bill Bishop, 蔡明璋, 魏明谷 — different persons). No new community material; HOLD (林明璋 vs 林明彰) maintained. SKIP-verified-saturated.
  • slice 10120400-26 recheck (2026-10-12): full 5-dir grep (林明璋/林明彰/Ming Chiang Lin) — hit set unchanged (#124, #1416, ourjourneys-138, winners30, conrad award page, works index), all already absorbed and linked. No new community material; HOLD (林明璋 vs 林明彰) maintained. SKIP-verified-saturated.

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