Juhn Guang Liou is a Taiwanese geologist. Liou attended

Hsinchu Senior High School National Hsinchu Senior High School () is a high school in East District, Hsinchu City, Taiwan. Student enrollment averages around 2200. Although traditionally an all-boy institution, National Hsinchu Senior High School started admitting female ...

and

National Taiwan University National Taiwan University (NTU; ) is a public research university in Taipei, Taiwan. The university was founded in 1928 during Taiwan under Japanese rule, Japanese rule as the seventh of the Imperial Universities. It was named Taihoku Imper ...

, where he worked as a research assistant to Academia Sinica member V. C. Juan alongside high school classmate

Bor-ming Jahn Bor-ming Jahn (; 24 August 1940 – 1 December 2016) was a Taiwanese-French geochemist. Born in Miaoli on 24 August 1940, Jahn graduated from Hsinchu Senior High School and attended National Taiwan University, where, in 1963, he earned a bachelor ...

. Liou earned a doctorate from the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a Normal school, teachers colle ...

, and joined the Stanford University faculty in 1972. In 1978, Liou was named a fellow of the

Mineralogical Society of America The Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) is a scientific membership organization. MSA was founded in 1919 for the advancement of mineralogy, crystallography, geochemistry, and petrology, and promotion of their uses in other sciences, industry, ...

and awarded a

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

. The

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granted Liou fellowship in 1979. He retired from Stanford in 2005, and was awarded the

Roebling Medal The Roebling Medal is the highest award of the Mineralogical Society of America for scientific eminence as represented primarily by scientific publication of outstanding original research in mineralogy. The award is named for Colonel Washington A. ...

in 2011.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Liou, Juhn G. Living people Taiwanese expatriates in the United States National Taiwan University alumni University of California, Los Angeles alumni Stanford University faculty Fellows of the Geological Society of America Taiwanese geologists Year of birth missing (living people) People from Hsinchu Fellows of the Mineralogical Society of America