Keh-Fei Liu

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Keh-Fei Frank Liu is a Chinese-born American physicist.

Liu was born in 1947 and graduated from the department of physics at Tunghai University with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1968. [1] [2] He then pursued graduate study at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, where he was advised by Gerald E. Brown. [2] Liu completed his Master of Science degree in 1971, followed by his doctorate in 1975. [2] Liu held an adjunct assistant professorship at the University of California, Los Angeles, between 1979 and 1980, [2] when he joined the University of Kentucky faculty. [2] [3] In 1986, Liu was promoted to a full professorship in 1986. [2] In 1997, Liu was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society "[f]or pioneering work in lattice gauge calculations which checked nuclear models quantitatively". [4]

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References

  1. "Tunghai Announces 2022 Outstanding Alumni Winners". 5 October 2022. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "A Subnuclear Journey". University of Kentucky Department of Physics and Astronomy. April 2007. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
  3. Piercy, Lindsey. "Kirwan Prize Awarded to Physics Professor Keh-Fei Liu". University of Kentucky Department of Physics and Astronomy. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  4. "APS fellow archive". American Physical Society. Retrieved 20 February 2023.