Ted Hsu
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Ted Hsu Ph.D., B.Sc. |
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| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Kingston and the Islands |
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In office 2011–2015 |
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| Preceded by | Peter Milliken |
| Succeeded by | Mark Gerretsen |
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Theodore Hsu March 4, 1964 Bartlesville, Oklahoma |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse(s) | Tara Sharkey |
| Residence | Kingston, Ontario |
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Queen's University Princeton University |
| Website | tedhsu.ca |
Theodore "Ted" Hsu, (/ˈʃuː/; Chinese: 徐正陶; born March 4, 1964) is a Canadian physicist and politician from the province of Ontario. He served one term as Member of Parliament for the riding of Kingston and the Islands and served as the Liberal Party's Critic for Science and Technology, Post-Secondary Education, Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario and Federal Economic Development Initiative in Northern Ontario.
Ted Hsu was born in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, in 1964 to James and Marjorie. When he was six months old the family moved to Kingston, Ontario where his father joined Queen’s University as a professor of chemical engineering. He has two younger brothers, Bob and Leon. Hsu is of Chinese descent and is fluent in the French and Mandarin languages. He graduated in 1980 from Loyalist Collegiate and Vocational Institute in Kingston, at age 16. Hsu was a talented chess player in his youth, eventually reaching Class A strength. In 1984, he graduated from Queen’s University with a B.Sc. Hons. in Physics, and then obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton University in 1989. He did post-doctoral research in Chalk River, Vancouver, and France.
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