Wing-Huen Ip

Ip in August 2015

Wing-Huen Ip (Chinese: 葉永烜; 10 March 1947) is a Chinese-born German astronomer.

Ip is a native of Nanjing born in 1947.[1] He was raised in Macau and graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong with a Bachelor of Arts in physics in 1969,[1][2] moved to the United States to obtain a Master of Arts in the same subject from the University of Pittsburgh the following year,[2] and subsequently completed his doctorate in applied physics and information technology at the University of California, San Diego in 1974.[1][2] He remained at UCSD to pursue postdoctoral research.[1][2] Between 1978 and 1998, Ip worked at the Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy.[1][2] He relocated to Taiwan in 1998, serving as dean of science for National Central University until 2004, and subsequently vice president until 2008.[1][2] He also held the Kwok-Ting Li Chair Professor within NCU's Institute of Astronomy.[3] Ip is a founding member of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, established in 2004.[4]

Ip is a 2007 fellow of the American Geophysical Union,[5] a 2016 member of Academia Sinica,[2] and 2020 recipient of the American Astronomical Society's Gerard P. Kuiper Prize.[6]

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  6. ^ "2020 Prize Recipients Wing-Huen Ip – 2020 Gerard P. Kuiper Prize". American Astronomical Society. 2020. Retrieved 24 September 2023.