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The Most Famous

CHEMISTS from Taiwan

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This page contains a list of the greatest Taiwanese Chemists. The pantheon dataset contains 509 Chemists, 1 of which were born in Taiwan. This makes Taiwan the birth place of the 39th most number of Chemists behind Moldova and New Zealand.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Taiwanese Chemists of all time. This list of famous Taiwanese Chemists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Yuan T. Lee (1936 - )

With an HPI of 56.36, Yuan T. Lee is the most famous Taiwanese Chemist.  His biography has been translated into 46 different languages on wikipedia.

Yuan Tseh Lee (Chinese: 李遠哲; pinyin: Lǐ Yuǎnzhé; Wade–Giles: Li³ Yüan³-che²; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lí Oán-tiat; born 19 November 1936) is a Taiwanese chemist. He is a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the first Taiwanese Nobel Prize laureate who, along with the Hungarian-Canadian John C. Polanyi and American Dudley R. Herschbach, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986 "for their contributions to the dynamics of chemical elementary processes".Lee's particular physical chemistry work was related to the use of advanced chemical kinetics techniques to investigate and manipulate the behavior of chemical reactions using crossed molecular beams. From 15 January 1994 to 19 October 2006, Lee served as the President of the Academia Sinica of Taiwan. In 2011, he was elected head of the International Council for Science.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as chemists born between 1936 and 1936. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living chemists include Yuan T. Lee.

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