The Most Famous
CHEMISTS from Taiwan
This page contains a list of the greatest Taiwanese Chemists. The pantheon dataset contains 602 Chemists, 1 of which were born in Taiwan. This makes Taiwan the birth place of the 38th most number of Chemists behind Türkiye, and South Korea.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Taiwanese Chemists of all time. This list of famous Taiwanese Chemists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Yuan T. Lee (b. 1936)
With an HPI of 65.02, Yuan T. Lee is the most famous Taiwanese Chemist. His biography has been translated into 50 different languages on wikipedia.
Yuan Tseh Lee (Chinese: 李遠哲; pinyin: Lǐ Yuǎnzhé; Wade–Giles: Li³ Yüan³-che²; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lí Oán-tiat; born 19 November 1936) is a Taiwanese chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986 for his contributions to the development of reaction dynamics. Lee is a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and honorary director of the Nagoya University Institute for Advanced Study along with Ryoji Noyori. He was awarded the Nobel with John C. Polanyi and Dudley R. Herschbach for "contributions to the dynamics of chemical elementary processes". He was the first Taiwanese person be awarded the Nobel Prize. His research in physical chemistry concerned the use of advanced chemical kinetics techniques to investigate and manipulate the behavior of chemical reactions using crossed molecular beams. From 1994 to 2006, Lee served as the President of the Academia Sinica. In 2011, he was elected head of the International Council for Science.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Taiwanese chemists born between 1936 and 1936. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Taiwanese chemists include Yuan T. Lee. As of April 2024, 1 new Taiwanese chemists have been added to Pantheon including Yuan T. Lee.
