In Memoriam: Shoei-Sheng Chen (January 26, 1940–February 11, 2012)

Abstract

Shoei-Sheng Chen, or S.-S. or more affectionately “Sunshine” as he was commonly known to his close friends and colleagues, was born in Ko-Lin Village in Dong-Shan County of I-Lan, Taiwan. He was the first in his town to attend high school and eventually graduated at the top of the class in engineering at the National Taiwan University and was awarded a scholarship to study in the U.S. He received his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1968. After that he took a job as a civil and mechanical engineer at the Argonne National Laboratory in Darien, Illinois—a position he held for 30 years until his retirement in 1998. S.-S. met his wife Ruth in the U.S. They were married in 1969 and settled down in Willowbrook, Illinois, with their three children Lyrice, Lisa, and Steve.