李秉林

Identity Snapshot

  • English: —
  • Also seen: 博士 is a title, not part of the name. No English in the Who’s Who title. Not invented.
  • Chinese: 李秉林
  • Era: Birth Place
  • Geography: Taiwan
  • Core roles: engineer, scientist
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Publications (professional) and Patents Nearly 40 U.S. patents and more than 40 polymer literature works, focusing on the discussion of multiphase polymer mixing processing and physical properties, and plastic powder mechanics (將近40個美國專利,及40多篇高分子文獻著作, 著重於討論多相高分子混練加工與物性,以及塑料粉體力學)

Education

  • National Taiwan Univ. — B. S., ChE
  • Washington Univ. — M.S., ChE
  • University of Tennessee — Ph.D., ChE — (高分子工程及科學)

Employment

  • BF Goodrich, Brecksville, Ohio — Corporate Research — (1974-1999) — Teknor Apex, Rhode Island — Central Research — (2000-2010)

Family

  • Wife: Jin Lee
  • Daughter: 1
  • Son: 1

Role in the Community

  • Published the personal essay 心緒森林 (re-verified against corpus 2026-09-19, slice 09170600-26; no new corpus hits beyond the two records below) (Life/生活 column, 01/2021) in the TAH Foundation publication stream — beyond his polymer-science literature, he contributed life writing to the community record: 生活.
  • His TAH Who’s Who encyclopedia entry is itself archived as a corpus work: 2308. 李秉林博士. The archived form record (vault mirror, read 2026-10-07) fixes his U.S. arrival — first year/city/state 1968, St. Louis, MO (consistent with the Washington Univ. M.S. below), residence Rhode Island — absent from the page above.
  • Corpus re-greps 2026-09-20 through 2026-10-01 (slices 09190400-14 … 09261000-1) returned only the two records above plus the index; the one extra hit ever seen (“Jin Lee” in a ta.org book list) is the novelist Min Jin Lee — false positive, not his wife. Re-check 2026-10-07 (slice 10051909-24): exact ZH grep across all five corpus dirs confirms the same hit set; surname-only hits (秉林) are empty outside his own records. Verified-saturated beyond the 2308 form detail absorbed above.

Sources

  • |TAH Foundation
  • |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-22 (slice 09211500-28): hits re-confirmed = own record (心緒森林 #1346) + 百科 #2308 + index only. No new material. SKIP.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-23 (slice 09221000-25): hits re-confirmed = 心緒森林 #1346 + 百科 #2308 only. No new material. SKIP.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-24 (slice 09230900-13): hits re-confirmed = #1346 + #2308 + index only. Verified-saturated; SKIP.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-25 (slice 09240900-12): hits re-confirmed = #1346 + #2308 + index only. Verified-saturated; SKIP.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-10-01 (slice 09261000-1): ZH+EN re-grep (李秉林 / Bing-Lin / Binglin / Ping-Lin) of works/ + articles/ — hits re-confirmed = 心緒森林 #1346 + 百科 #2308 + works/index.md only. Verified-saturated; SKIP.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-10-08 (slice 10070400-31): exact ZH(李秉林)+EN(Bing-Lin/Binglin) grep across all five corpus dirs — hits re-confirmed = 心緒森林 #1346 + 百科 #2308 + works index + sources mirror only. Verified-saturated; SKIP.