Chung K. Law
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| birth_place = China
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| nationality = American
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| work_institution = Princeton University
University of California Davis
Northwestern University
General Motors Research Laboratories
| alma_mater = University of Alberta
University of Toronto
University of California San Diego
| thesis_title = Studies on droplet combustion
| thesis_year = 1973
| doctoral_advisor = Forman A. Williams
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| known_for = Combustion
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Chung King Law ({{zh|t=羅忠敬|link=no}};born 31 August 1947;also known as Ed Law) is a Chinese-born American scientist and a Robert H. Goddard professor at Princeton University.{{cite web|url=https://mae.princeton.edu/people/faculty/law|title=Chung Law|publisher=Princeton University}} He is a specialist in the combustion science.
Career and research
Law received his bachelors and masters degree, respectively from University of Alberta and University of Toronto. He completed his PhD in 1973 under the supervision of Forman A. Williams at University of California San Diego. He worked at the General Motors Research Laboratories for two years and briefly at the Princeton University before joining the faculty at the Northwestern University in 1976. He joined the faculty of University of California Davis in 1984 and left in 1988, to join the faculty at Princeton University, where he is currently the Robert H. Goddard professor.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cce.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/info/1005/1159.htm|title=Chung K. LAW-Center For Combustion Energy|website=tsinghua.edu.cn}}
Law has made several contributions to the combustion field, especially, in connection with droplet dynamics and burning, laminar flame speed and stretched flames, chemical mechanism reduction.
Books
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- {{cite book|author=Chung K. Law|title=Combustion Physics|year=2006|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0521154215}}
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Honors and awards
Law holds many honors and awards. He is an elected fellow of ASME (1989),{{cite web |title=Updated list of fellows. 2021 |url=https://www.asme.org/getmedia/5beb2b5c-6e97-4d9e-acf0-6c0c3b91d9b5/fellows-all-updated-2022_2.pdf |publisher=ASME |access-date=8 January 2023}} AIAA (1992), APS (2006), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2010), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012), Combustion Institute (2018).{{Cite web |date=20 June 2017 |title=Fellows of The Combustion Institute | The Combustion Institute |url=https://www.combustioninstitute.org/resources/awards/fellows-of-the-combustion-institute/,%20https://www.combustioninstitute.org/resources/awards/fellows-of-the-combustion-institute/}} He is an elected member of the [https://www.nae.edu/30618/Professor-Chung-K-Law US National Academy of Engineering] (2002). He is a past president of the Combustion Institute (2000-2004).
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- Silver Combustion Medal (1990) from The Combustion Institute{{Cite web|url=https://www.combustioninstitute.org/resources/awards/silver-combustion-medal/,%20https://www.combustioninstitute.org/resources/awards/silver-combustion-medal/|title=Silver Combustion Medal | The Combustion Institute|date=24 June 2016}}
- Alfred C. Egerton Gold Medal (2006) from The Combustion Institute
- Pendray Aerospace Literature Award (2004) from AIAA
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The journal Combustion and Flame issued a special issue commemorating Law's 70th birthday in 2018.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/combustion-and-flame/vol/195/suppl/C|title=Combustion and Flame | Special Commemorative Issue: Professor Chung King (Ed) Law 70th Birthday | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier|website=www.sciencedirect.com}}
References
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External links
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Category:University of Toronto alumni
Category:University of California, San Diego alumni
Category:Fellows of the Combustion Institute