Yuk L. Yung

Yuk-ling Yung (Chinese: 翁玉林; pinyin: Wóng Yùlín) is Professor of Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology, 1986 to present.

Biography

Education

He was educated at the University of California, Berkeley earning B.S. in Engineering Physics, with honors, and at Harvard University, acquiring a Ph.D. in Physics in 1974.

Specialization

Yung specializes in the physics and chemistry of planetary atmospheres. He has worked on a number of NASA projects including Galileo (spacecraft), Cassini-Huygens, and the Earth Observing System.

Awards

He won the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal in 2004 and became the first Taiwanese winner of the Kuiper Award in 2015. He is cited in the American Men and Women of Science.

Research

In an article in journal Science, it was reported that planetary science professor Yuk Yung, along with physics research scientist Tracey Tromp, Assistant Professor of Geochemistry John Eiler, planetary science research scientist Run-Lie Shia, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist Mark Allen, were concerned that leaked hydrogen gas for use in hydrogen cars, in a hydrogen economy, could indirectly cause as much as a 10-percent decrease in atmospheric ozone.