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Gioetta Kuo
Gioietta Kuo spent her childhood in the Himalayan foothills in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. At the end of the Second World War, her father took up a job with UNESCO in Paris and she was abruptly dumped...показать большеGioietta Kuo spent her childhood in the Himalayan foothills in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. At the end of the Second World War, her father took up a job with UNESCO in Paris and she was abruptly dumped into a girls boarding school in Bristol, England, when just 14 years of age with little command of English. After 4 years, she went to Cambridge and Birmingham universities obtaining a PhD in nuclear physics at age 24. In the following year she lived in Paris, working for the French Commisariat d'Energie Atomique. In 1959 she married a fellow graduate student from Yugoslavia and went to live in Zagreb, Croatia where she worked in nuclear physics at Institut Ruder Boskovic. In 1961, she and her husband, Goran, returned to England, working in computational plasma physics for the UK Atomic Energy Authority's plasma physics laboratory at Culham, near Oxford. She was the Atlas Computer Fellow at St Hilda's college of Oxford university before coming to the USA to work at Princeton University in 1977. She is an expert on CT image reconstruction with 2 patents to her name. Since 2006, she has written over 50 articles on the global environment. Among them many in the Chinese press: People's Daily organ of the Chinese government and World Environment Journal of the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection, She also writes for several Washington think tanks: World Future Society, wfs.org, Worldwatch.org and Futuretakes.org. She is a senior Fellow of her resident think tank American Center for International Policy Studies, amcips.org.
She has 2 sons. She and Goran live among the vineyards of California.показать меньше