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Wen S. Charlie Chern (陳文雄博士)

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Wen S. Charlie Chern (陳文雄博士)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Wen S. Charlie Chern
  • Chinese: 陳文雄博士
  • Era: 1941
  • Geography: 台灣 彰化 田尾
  • Core roles: professor
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Wen S. (Charlie) Chern 陳文雄 – History of Taiwanese American (T.A. Archives) 台美史料中心

Education

  • Univ. of Florida — 1969 — M.S., Agricultural Economics
  • UC Berkeley — 1975 — Ph.D., Agricultural Economics

Employment

  • Florida Department of Citrus — 1973 - 1974 — Economist
  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory — 1974 - 1981 — Economist and Group Leader
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory — 1981- 1983 — Senior Economist and Planner
  • University of Maryland — 1983 - 1987 — Associate Professor and Professor
  • The Ohio State University — 1987 - 2007 — Professor
  • 中正大學 — 2007 - 2013 — Distinguished Research Professor

Family

  • Wife: 李麗芳
  • Daughter: Annabelle
  • Son: Wenson

Sources

Not the same person

Dr. Winston H. Chen (陳文雄) is a different man: the 1991 Air Force One record (TAH #35, #267, #896, #892) and the Silicon Valley entrepreneur named in Our Journeys #216. Those records were linked here because the characters match. They are not this page. No person page for Winston yet.

Vault records

  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/292-wen-s-charlie-chern-e9-99-b3-e6-96-87-e9-9b-84201502||TAH #292: Wen S. (Charlie) Chern 陳文雄 (2015/02)]]

Timeline

(absorbed from this page’s own Identity Snapshot and TAH tables; no external sources added)

  • 1941 — 出生於台灣彰化田尾
  • 1969 — M.S., Agricultural Economics, Univ. of Florida
  • 1973–1974 — Economist, Florida Department of Citrus
  • 1974–1981 — Economist and Group Leader, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • 1975 — Ph.D., Agricultural Economics, UC Berkeley
  • 1981–1983 — Senior Economist and Planner, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • 1983–1987 — Associate Professor and Professor, University of Maryland
  • 1987–2007 — Professor, The Ohio State University
  • 2007–2013 — Distinguished Research Professor, 中正大學
  • Family — 妻 李麗芳；女 Annabelle；子 Wenson

Deepen — 2026-09-14 (vault-only pass)

Absorbed from this page’s own cited TAH records; no new external facts:

  • Doctoral years at UC Berkeley (Ph.D. Agricultural Economics, 1975) — the vault documents Taiwanese student life at Berkeley at |TASA at UC Berkeley.
  • Professor at The Ohio State University 1987–2007 — the vault records the Taiwanese student community at OSU at |TASA at Ohio State University.

Role in the Community (absorbed from corpus, 2026-09-14)

  • Wrote the T.A. Archives (台美史料中心) history piece recorded as [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/292-wen-s-charlie-chern-e9-99-b3-e6-96-87-e9-9b-84201502|TAH #292: Wen S. (Charlie) Chern 陳文雄 (2015/02)]]; the vault holds the companion community-archive context at Introduction of the T.A. Archives.
  • Not Dr. Winston H. Chen. The Air Force One fact (1991-12-30) belongs to that other 陳文雄. It was removed from this page on 2026-10-25.

Role in the Community (corpus pass, 2026-10-10)

Story-corpus essays under the byline 陳文雄, consistent with his T.A. Archives contribution (#292, 2015/02):

  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/197-e8-90-bd-e8-91-89-e6-ad-b8-e6-a0-b9-e9-99-b3-e6-96-87-e9-9b-84201502|TAH #197: 落葉歸根 / 陳文雄 (2015/02)]] — same 2015/02 slot as his #292 piece.

  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys216|TAH #216: 台美人對故鄉的殷殷期望 (04/2016)]] — names a Silicon Valley 陳文雄 (Winston Chen). Not absorbed as this page’s byline. See the HOLD below.

  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories427|TAH #427: 七年抗爭及控告台電的紀實 (04/2016)]] — seven-year struggle and lawsuit against Taipower, as recorded.

  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/publications1035|TAH #1035: 矽谷成功經濟學 (03/2016)]] — co-authored with 童振源 and 方頌仁.

  • HOLD: name collision with the Bay Area entrepreneur — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys216|#216]] names a Silicon Valley “陳文雄 (Winston Chen)” who founded Compression Lab (1976) and joined Solectron (1978), and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys38|#38]] / [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys37|#37]] list a 陳文雄 among 協志會 and 蓬萊歌劇團 figures; [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys106|#106]] further lists a 陳文雄 among the 歷任協志會會長 described as 黑名單上的人物. The biography on this page (Univ. of Florida 1969 → Florida Dept. of Citrus 1973–74 → Oak Ridge 1974–81) does not place him in the Bay Area in those years, so the entrepreneur and the 協志會/歌劇團 references are NOT merged into this page without verification.

  • HOLD: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys299|#299]] records a “陳文雄博士” as 長輩會 (Senior Citizens’ Association) 永遠名譽會長 since 1988 — plausible for the same doctor but unconfirmed; recorded as-is.

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