The Most Famous
CHEMISTS from Hong Kong
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Chinese Chemists of all time. This list of famous Chinese Chemists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Ching Wan Tang (b. 1947)
With an HPI of 51.03, Ching Wan Tang is the most famous Chinese Chemist. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Ching Wan Tang (Chinese: 鄧青雲; pinyin: Dèng Qīngyún; born July 23, 1947) is a Hong Kong–American physical chemist. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2018 for inventing OLED (together with Steven Van Slyke), and was awarded the 2011 Wolf Prize in Chemistry. Tang is the IAS Bank of East Asia Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and previously served as the Doris Johns Cherry Professor at the University of Rochester.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Chinese chemists born between 1947 and 1947. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Chinese chemists include Ching Wan Tang.
