Lifetime in Academia by Ana Huang

Lifetime in Academia by Ana Huang

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Lifetime in Academia by Ana Huang

Huang's autobiography offers readers a personal view of the turmoil and challenge of an academic career in East Asia during the 20th century. Huang received a chemistry degree at Oxford and completed post-doctoral work at the U. of Chicago before returning to teach and become a vice-chancellor of bo
A distinguished chemist, Rayson Huang took his undergraduate degree at the University of Hong Kong before pursuing doctoral research at Oxford University and post-doctoral research at the University of Chicago. He taught at universities in Malaya and Singapore and became Vice-Chancellor of Nanyang University in Singapore in 1969. He served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong from 1972 until his retirement in 1986. He was a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong from 1977 to 1983 and served on the Drafting Committee for the Basic Law for Hong Kong after the territory's return to China in 1997.
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ISBN 13 9789622095182
ISBN 10 9622095186
Title Lifetime in Academia
Author Ana Huang
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Hong Kong University Press
Year published 2000-11-30
Number of pages 208
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