HKU’s Vivian Yam Wins The 2015 Ludwig Mond Award

Professor Vivian Yam of the University of Hong Kong has won the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2015 Ludwig Mond Award.

AsianScientist (May 13, 2015) – Professor Vivian Yam Wing-wah, the Philip Wong Wilson Wong Professor in Chemistry and Energy and Chair Professor at the University of Hong Kong, was chosen as the winner of the Ludwig Mond Award 2015 by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in the United Kingdom.

A winner is selected each year by RSC’s Dalton Division Awards Committee, for his or her outstanding research in any aspect of inorganic chemistry.

Yam was awarded for her work on the innovative design of new strategies utilizing non-covalent metal-metal interactions as spectroscopic reporters for host-guest interactions and microenvironment changes, and for chemosensing and biological assays.

“I am honored to be recognized by RSC for the second time and am flattered to join my distinguished peers on the list of past recipients of the Award,” said Yam.

In 2005/06, Yam was awarded the Centenary Lectureship and Medal (now re-named as the RSC Centenary Prize) by the RSC. The prizes are awarded to outstanding chemists, who are also exceptional communicators, from overseas to give lectures in the British Isles. This award adds to her long list of awards, including being elected as Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2001 at the age of 38, the youngest member of the Academy.

Established in 1981 following an endowment from ICI (Imperial Chemical Industry), the Ludwig Mond Award award commemorates the chemist and industrialist Dr. Ludwig Mond. Ludwig Mond Award winners are presented with £2,000, a medal and a certificate. The awardee will be invited to give lectures at UK universities.

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Source: The University of Hong Kong.
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