Ching W. Tang

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Ching W. Tang

Ching Wan Tang ( Chinese  鄧青雲  /  邓青云 , Pinyin Dèng Qīngyún , Jyutping Dang 6 Cing 1 wan 4 , born July 23, 1947 in Yuen Long , Hong Kong ) is a Chinese -American chemist .

Tang studied at the University of British Columbia ( Bachelor Accounts 1970) and in 1975 at Cornell University in physical chemistry doctorate . From 1975 he was a researcher at Eastman Kodak , from 1981 as Senior Research Scientist , from 1990 as Research Associate and from 1998 as Senior Research Associate . In 2003 he became a Distinguished Fellow of the Kodak Research Laboratories. From 2006 he is Doris Johns Cherry Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Rochester .

Tang is known as the inventor of the organic light-emitting diode (OLED) in 1987 with Steven Van Slyke and other optoelectronic components (such as the organic solar cell , the organic photovoltaic cell, OPVC). With various inventions, he also promoted flat screen technology (including OLEDs).

In 2001 he received the Jan Rachjmann Prize and the Carrothers Award from the American Chemical Society , in 2005 the Humboldt Research Prize , in 2007 the Daniel Noble Award from the IEEE and in 2011 the Wolf Prize in Chemistry. In 2013 Tang was awarded the Eduard Rhein Foundation Prize. For 2017 he was awarded the IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal . In 2019 he received the Kyoto Prize in the field of materials science.

In 1998 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (2006). He holds an honorary professorship at Shanghai University (of which he is an honorary doctor), Soochow University and South China University of Technology.

Tang also became IAS Bank of East Asia Professor at the HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in September 2013 .

Since 2014 Thomson Reuters has counted him among the favorites for a Nobel Prize ( Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates ) due to the number of his citations . In 2013 he was inducted into the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame with Van Slyke, and into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2018 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ CW Tang, SA Van Slyke : Organic electroluminescent diodes. In: Applied Physics Letters . Volume 51, 1987, pp. 913-915, doi: 10.1063 / 1.98799
  2. ↑ CW Tang: Two-layer organic photovoltaic cell. In: Applied Physics Letters. Volume 48, 1986, pp. 183-185, doi: 10.1063 / 1.96937
  3. ↑ Hong Kong University of Science and Technology: HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) Naming Ceremony and Inauguration of HKUST Jockey Club IAS Named Professorships A Significant Platform to Bring Together Brilliant Minds , accessed December 26, 2017.
  4. ↑ 2014 Predictions - Medicine at Thomson Reuters (sciencewatch.com); accessed on September 27, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Tang, Ching W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tang, Ching Wan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sino-American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Yuen Long , Hong Kong