Liu Chen (physicist)

Liu Chen
Liu Chen
陳騮
	Chen at UCI in 2004
Born	February 4, 1946; Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Citizenship	Republic of China; United States;
Education	National Taiwan University (BS) ; Washington State University, Pullman (MS); University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Spouse	Shingshah Lee (李醒夏) (m. 1969)
Children	1
Awards	John Dawson Award (2004); Hannes Alfvén Prize (2008); James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (2012); Subramanyan Chandrasekhar Prize of Plasma Physics (2019);
	Scientific career
Fields	Plasma physics
Institutions	Bell Labs; Princeton University; University of California, Irvine; Zhejiang University;
Thesis	I. Heating of Magnetized Plasmas by Large-Amplitude Electric Field. II. Reduction of the Grid Effects in Simulation Plasmas (1972)
Doctoral advisor	Charles K. Birdsall
Website	www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=2034

Liu Chen (simplified Chinese: 陈骝; traditional Chinese: 陳騮; pinyin: Chén Liú; born February 4, 1946) is a Taiwanese-American theoretical physicist who has made original contributions to many aspects of plasma physics. He is known for the discoveries of kinetic Alfven waves, toroidal Alfven eigenmodes, and energetic particle modes; the theories of geomagnetic pulsations, Alfven wave heating, and fishbone oscillations, and the first formulation of nonlinear gyrokinetic equations. Chen retired from University of California, Irvine (UCI) in 2012, assuming the title professor emeritus of physics and astronomy.