Frank Shu
Frank Shu was born in Kunming, Yunnan, China on June 2nd, 1943 and is the American Astronomer. At the age of 80, Frank Shu biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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After his PhD, Shu joined the Stony Brook University as an assistant professor, and was promoted to associate professor in 1971. He moved to the University of California, Berkeley in 1973, and became a full professor in 1976. He had a brief visit at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1982. Between 1984 and 1988, he was the Chair, or Head, of the Department of Astronomy.
From 1994 to 1996, Shu was also the President of the American Astronomical Society (AAS).
Shu was named a University Professor of the University of California (UC) system in 1998, an honour that at the time was only endowed to 19 faculty members across the UC system.
In 2002, Shu followed in his father's footsteps and went to Taiwan to take up the position of the President of the National Tsing Hua University, returning to the United States and joining the University of California, San Diego as a distinguished professor in 2006.
Shu officially retired in 2009, becoming a University Professor Emeritus of the UC system, and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (until 2015).
Currently, Shu is also an Emeritus Senior Fellow at the Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study of the City University of Hong Kong.
Shu has written 3 textbooks: Physical Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy, The Physics of Astrophysics Vol. I: Radiation and The Physics of Astrophysics Vol. II: Gas Dynamics.
- Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy (1977)
- Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1987)
- Academician of the Academia Sinica, Taiwan (1990)
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1992)
- Brouwer Award (1996)
- Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (2000)
- Member of the American Philosophical Society (2003)
- Foreign Associate of the Royal Astronomical Society (2006)
- Member of the The World Academy of Sciences (2006)
- Centennial Medal, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University (2008)
- Shaw Prize in Astronomy (2009)
- Bruce Medal (2009)