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Eugene Loh

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Chinese-American physicist

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According to Wikipedia, Eugene Chen Loh was a Chinese American physicist, having been Distinguished Professor Emeritus at University of Utah and was a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Biography Loh spent his childhood in Suzhou, China and emigrated to Virginia with his family at 14. He received his BS from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and his PhD from MIT. He took his first faculty job at Cornell University before moving to the University of Utah in 1975. He led the team to build the High Resolution Fly's Eye Cosmic Ray Detector at the US Army's Dugway Proving Ground, which in 1991 recorded the most energetic cosmic ray ever detected, known as the "Oh-My-God particle". He received the Utah Governor's Medal for Science and Technology in 1987. In 1998, Dr. Loh became rotating Program Director of Astrophysics at the National Science Foundation . In 1982, as chairman, Department of Physics, University of Utah, Prof. Loh, along with former chairman, Prof. Peter Godbe Gibbs, and Physicist Prof. William D. Ohlsen, supervised and approved the M.S. Physics thesis, "Flexible Response Modes of Missile Experimental: Multiple Aims Points System and Deception Dense Pack", by Robert Donald Green, then also a doctoral candidate at University of Pennsylvania.

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