Ching Wan Tang
Ching Wan Tang | |
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| 鄧青雲 | |
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| Born | July 23, 1947 |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Education | King's College, Hong Kong University of British Columbia Cornell University |
| Known for | Work on organic LED and hetero-junction organic photovoltaic cell |
| Awards | Jan Rajchman Prize (2001) Carothers Award (2001) Humboldt Research Award (2005) Daniel E. Noble Award (2007) Wolf Prize in Chemistry (2011) Eduard Rhein Award (2013) Nick Holonyak, Jr. Award (2014) IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal (2017) C&C Prize (2018) Kyoto Prize (2019) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physical chemistry, chemical engineering |
| Workplaces | University of Rochester Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Eastman Kodak |
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.