Professor Kehsin Kuo passed away in Beijing at 22:45 on December 13, 2006. The main causes were lung and heart failures. Professor Kuo's daughter and son-in-law were present at the hospital. The funeral was held in Beijing on Sunday, December 17. Close to four hundred people came to pay final respect to Professor Kuo.
Link to Professor Kuo Memorial Page
On Professor Kehsin Kuo's Scientific Career
Professor Kuo on camera, 2004 (~ 0.5 GB)
Professor Kehsin Kuo's publication list
A brief biography of Professor Kuo
'Han gick från KTH till Kinas akademi - Kafferast bättre än Konfucius' - by Hans Sandberg
'The discovery of fivefold symmetry and icosahedral quasicrystals' - by Kehsin Kuo
'Quasicrystals and electron microscopy' - by Kehsin Kuo
Foreword to the special issue of Micron dedicated to Professor Kuo on the occasion of his 75th birthday - by Lianmao Peng and J.L. Aragón
K. H. Kuo Summer School
of Electron Microscopy and Crystallography
First School: Beijing Workshop of Cryo-Electron Microscopy in Structural Biology
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, July 14-16, 2008
Orangized by: Senfang Sui (Co-Chair), Da-Neng Wang (Co-Chair), Yigong Shi, Xiaodong Su, Wei Xu and Changcheng Yin
Second School: In-situ Electron Microscopy of Nanomaterials
Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China, July 15 - 17, 2009
Orangized by: Ze Zhang, Lu-Chang Qin and Ji-Ping Zhang
Third School: International Workshop of 3D Molecular Imaging by Cryo-Electron Microscopy
Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, August 8-12, 2010
Orangized by: Fei Sun (Co-Chair), Da-Neng Wang (Co-Chair), Huilin Li, Senfang Sui, Wei Xu, Hong Z. Zhou and Ping Zhu
Jiao-Liu
Edited by: Dewei Deng, Xiuliang Ma, Dong Su, Da-Neng Wang & Xiaobiao Zeng
Former Editors: Professor Kehsin Kuo (1988 - 1994), Haixin Sui (2003 - 2007)
No. 25 (December 13, 2008) New!!!
No. 23 (February 17, 2007) Special Issue Dedicated to the Memory of Professor Kehsin Kuo
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20 (December 31, 2005)
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19 (July 1, 2005)
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18 (December 31, 2004)
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17 (July 8, 2004)
No.
16 (November 1, 2003)
No.
15 (August 1, 2003) Special Issue
Dedicated to Professor Kehsin Kuo's 80th Birthday
Earlier Issues Edited by Professor Kehsin Kuo:
Professor Kuo's Students
Photo
Album
Professor Kuo's Funeral, December 17, 2006
Beijing Symposium of Electron Microscopy, August, 2003
Party celebrating Professor Kuo's 80th birthday
Registration desk at the party
Professor Kuo and his students at the party
News
-- Professor Renhui Wang of Wuhan University passed away on November 12, 2008, after long battle with illness. He was 71. Professor Wang was a well-known physicist and a beloved teacher. He will be missed by my. A foundation in memory of Professor Wang has been set up.
-- Organized by Professor Lianmao Peng, a special session in memory of Prof. Kuo was held during the 9th Asian-Pacific Microscopy Conference (APMC9), Jeju, Korea, November, 2008 (see http://www.apmc9.or.kr/).
-- The book “Ke Hsin Kuo Memorial Collection,” edited by the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences is being published: cover of hardcopy, cover of paperback, first page and table of contents (Courtesy of Xiaofeng Duan).
-- Sponsored by the International Union of Crystallography, "The First K. H. Kuo Summer School of Electron Microscopy and Crystallography: Beijing Workshop of Cryo-Electron Microscopy in Structural Biology” was held in Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, July 14 - 16, 2008 (see Workshop web site). Ninety-six people from seven countries attended the summer school.
-- On March 31, 2008, Xiaodong Zou received the Göran Gustafsson Prize for chemistry from the Swedish Academy of Sciences. This is the biggest prize by the Academy (4.6 million kronor per person), next only to the Nobel Prize (9 million, but to be shared by 1, 2 or 3 persons). Of the prize sum 0.1 million kronor is for private use and 4.5 million for research. The prize was presented to Xiaodong by the Swedish king, and after the dinner party she and her husband Sven had a 5 minutes chat with the king and queen.
-- A special session in memory of Prof. Kuo was held at the 10th Quasicrystal Jubilee Conference, Israel, October, 2007. Speakers included Profs. Knut Urban, Ning Wang and Eiji Abe (http://www.danknassim.co.il/quasicrystals07). An essay written by Ning Wang on what happened at the meeting can be found here.
-- The 2006 K. H. Kuo Prize was awarded to Dr. Jianghua Chen.
-- The 2004 K. H. Kuo Prizes were awarded to Dr. Chunlin Jia and Mr. Jun Luo.
-- Beijing Symposium of Electron Microscopy was held in Beijing, August 21-23, 2003, in honor of Prof. Kehsin Kuo’s 80th birthday.
-- The Christmas Party, December 25, 2002.
-- K. H. Kuo Education Fund was established in 2000.
-- Professor Linzhao Qian passed away in 1999 [1,2].
Calendar
Links
Atomic Imaging Laboratory, Institute of Metal Research, Shenyang
Beijing Laboratory of Electron Microscopy
Journal of Chinese Electron Microscopy Society
To contact Prof. Kuo's students by e-mail, please use the mailing
list
at Lu-Chang's site, khk-group at physics.unc.edu
Suggestions to this web page should be sent to, wang at saturn.med.nyu.edu.
