Dr. Luke C. L. Yuan died on February 11, 2003 in Beijing. He was born on April 5, 1912 as a grand son of Yuan Shih-kai (1859-1916; President of China, 1912-1916). Dr. Yuan received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Yenching University in 1932 and 1943 respectively and a doctorate from California Institute of Technology in 1936. He worked as assistant, Yenching University (1932-1934), assistant, California Institute of Technology (1937-1940), research fellow, California Institute of Technology (1940-1942), research physicist, RCA Laboratory; research associate, Princeton Unviersity (1942-1946); research physicist, RCA Laboratory (1942-1946); research associate, Princeton University (1946-1949); Sr. physicist, Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton (1949-1982); and consulatnat (1982-1987). After he retired in 1979, he helped found and became chairman, Board of Directors, Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu, Taiwan 1983-2003) and Chief Coordinator, Feasibility Study of a Prototype of a Superconducting Micrsophere Camera for Energy Determination of a Charged Partical by Transition Radiation(R. O. C. and France)
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Dr. Yuan received many awards and honors, including Geggenheim Fellow (1958); Science Achievement Medal, R.O.C. (1959); Honorary Professor of Chinese University of Science & Technology (Hefei), Nankai University, Honan University (Kaifeng), Southeastern University (Nanjing) and Chengzhou University (Chengzhou); Member, Honan Academy of Sciences; Member, New York Academy of Science; Member, Chinese Academy of Science, R.O.C.; Science Achievement Medal, R. O. C.(1959); Academician, Academia Sinica, R. O. C.(1959), Chinese Institution of Electronic Engineering, U. S. A.(1962), Visiting Professor, European Organization Nuclear Res.(1972-1978); Ctr. D-Etude Nucleare de Saclay, France(1972-1976), Board Director, Adelphi University Energy Research Center(1978-1987), Visiting Professor, Institute High Energy Physics, USSR (1979), University of Paris, France(1982), D. Sc. Nanjing University, People's Republic of China (1986), Ching-Hsing Medal, R. O. C.(1994), Distinguished Achievement Award, National Association of Chinese Americans, U. S. A.(1994). Dr. Yuan married to Dr. Chien-hsiung Wu, also a renowned physicist who died in 1997.
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