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Mow Lin: Master of the Extremophiles |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / SCIENTISTS PAST AND PRESENT |
| Author: D. Yap |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2004 |
| Size: 2,918 Words, 18,054 Characters |
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At the Associated High School of National Normal University in Taiwan in the 1950s, Mow Shiah Lin, one of many refugees from mainland China, especially enjoyed his chemistry studies. "One time," says his younger brother, Michael Lin, "he mixed some kinds of ingredients and caused an explosion, burning somebody's eyebrow. This really surprised the school. He was punished, because you weren't supposed to do that, but he didn't have wrong motives. It was just out of curiosity."
Lin also played with homemade rockets, shooting them off before crowds of curious children. "He spent a lot of time at the library where he watched and listened to movies or tapes about scientists," says his brother. "He liked to read scientific magazines. By about 16 or 17, he'd probably already made up his mind to...
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...rest, and its character [its Chinese ideogram] shows two trees standing together."
From his investment in microbial processes to enhance the energy harvest from natural resources to his roles as elder brother, husband, father, and community leader, Mow Shiah Lin was true to his name. He stood together with others in creating and supporting the larger fabric so aptly represented by a forest.
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