Juhn Guang Liou is a Taiwanese geologist. Liou attended Hsinchu Senior High School and

National Taiwan University National Taiwan University (NTU; zh, t=國立臺灣大學, poj=Kok-li̍p Tâi-oân Tāi-ha̍k, p=, s=) is a National university, national Public university, public research university in Taipei, Taiwan. Founded in 1928 during Taiwan under J ...

, where he worked as a research assistant to Academia Sinica member V. C. Juan alongside high school classmate Bor-ming Jahn. 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, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school the ...

, and joined the

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

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 Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...

. 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.

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{{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