Chi-Huey Wong | |
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翁啟惠 | |
8th President of the Academia Sinica | |
In office 19 October 2006 – 10 May 2016 | |
Vice President | Andrew H. J. Wang Chen Chien-jen Wang Yu Wang Fan-sen |
Preceded by | Yuan T. Lee |
Succeeded by | Wang Fan-sen (acting) |
Personal details | |
Born | Yizhu, Tainan County, Taiwan (now Chiayi County) | August 3, 1948
Education | National Taiwan University (BS, MS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
Chi-Huey Wong (Chinese: 翁啟惠; born 3 August 1948) is a Taiwanese-American biochemist. He is currently the Scripps Family Chair Professor at the Scripps Research Institute.[1] He is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, as awarded the 2014 Wolf Prize in Chemistry and 2015 RSC Robert Robinson Award.[2] Wong is also the holder of more than 100 patents and publisher of 700 more scholarly academic research papers under his name.[3]