Tang Shui Liu

Tang Shui Liu (1910 or 1911 to 1997) was a Chinese biologist, botanist and forestry researcher, born in Anfu County, Jiangxi, who died in Los Angeles. He studied in Tokyo and took a bachelor degree in botany at Kyoto Imperial University in 1936, then taught biology at colleges in Guangdong and Guangxi before moving to Taiwan in 1948, where he led the botany unit of the Taiwan Provincial Museum and taught at National Taiwan University and Taiwan Provincial Normal University. At National Taiwan University he became a professor and director of the Department of Forestry and dean of the School of Agriculture in 1972, leaving in 1977. He made a significant contribution through his extensive publications and was one of the editors of the first edition of the Flora of Taiwan.