A Lifetime in Academia - An Autobiography

After receiving a classical Chinese primary and a bilingual secondary education in his father's school Rayson Huang entered the University of Hong Kong in 1938.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Rayson Huang, Jun Li, Jing Lin
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 22
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2011
• EAN: 9789888083275
• ISBN: 978-988-8083-27-5
• No. of pages: 260
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Chemistry