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Ching Wan Tang

1947 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ching Wan Tang is the 584th most popular chemist (down from 556th in 2019), the 71st most popular biography from Hong Kong (down from 68th in 2019) and the most popular Chinese Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Ching Wan Tang ranks 584 out of 602. Before him are Rachel Fuller Brown, John George Children, Susan Solomon, Mary Engle Pennington, Martyn Poliakoff, and Richard Zare. After him are Willis R. Whitney, Marie Maynard Daly, Esther M. Conwell, Richard Lerner, Ruth R. Benerito, and Donald Howard Menzel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Ching Wan Tang ranks 796. Before him are Tom Scholz, Guo Jinlong, Martyn Poliakoff, Gerardo Vera, Zoltán Melis, and Heikki Ikola. After him are Stephen R. Donaldson, Gilles Duceppe, Stuart Baird, Juan Sol, George Alec Effinger, and Moses Nagamootoo.

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In Hong Kong

Among people born in Hong Kong, Ching Wan Tang ranks 71 out of 115. Before him are Byron Mann (1967), Marguerite Higgins (1920), Benny Chan (1961), Athena Chu (1971), Herman Li (1976), and Sandy Lam (1966). After him are Peter Chan (1962), Anita Yuen (1971), Charles Ng (1960), Joan Lorring (1926), Danny Chan Kwok-kwan (1975), and Eason Chan (1974).

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Among CHEMISTS In Hong Kong

Among chemists born in Hong Kong, Ching Wan Tang ranks 1. 

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