Chi-Huey Wong
Chi-Huey Wong | |
|---|---|
| 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 | August 3, 1948 Yizhu, Tainan County, Taiwan (now Chiayi County) |
| 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. He is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, and was awarded the 2014 Wolf Prize in Chemistry and the 2015 RSC Robert Robinson Award. Wong is also the holder of more than 100 patents and publisher of 700 more scholarly academic research papers under his name.