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He was a recipient of the Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal
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Career
Born in Mancheng Village, Hebei Province on Feb 7, 1915, Kuo obtained his B.Sc from Tsinghua University , M.Sc from Zhejiang University , and PhD from the University of Chicago USA .
1949-1961, Kuo worked as a research associate, later a senior specialist, and finally the project director on the Hurricane Project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He was Professors Emeritus at the Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago.
Kuo was an academician of Academia Sinica .
Works
Kuo developed important mathematical tools to describe the complex circulation patterns of atmospheric activity. He helped to mathematically model the birth of a hurricane. Many scholars comment that Kuo's work is an important part of the theoretical foundation for modern meteorology .
He is considered as a member of the ''Chicago School of Meteorology'', which started from Carl-Gustaf Rossby .
For this reason, in 1970, Kuo was awarded the Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal, from the American Meteorological Society , which is the highest honour for atmospheric science .
The ''Rayleigh-Kuo theorem'' or ''Rayleigh-Kuo Criterion'' is named after him .
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