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National Hsinchu Senior High School
National Hsinchu Senior High School () is a high school in East District, Hsinchu City, Taiwan. Student enrollment averages around 2200. Although traditionally an all-boy institution, National Hsinchu Senior High School started admitting females into the music program in 1998. History HCHS, originally called , was established on 1 April 1922. After World War II in 1945, it was renamed Taiwan Provincial Hsinchu High School. In July 1968, after compulsory education was extended to nine years, it was renamed Taiwan Provincial Hsinchu Senior High School, and on 1 February 2000, renamed National Hsinchu Senior High School. After the restoration in 1945, HCHS was a six-year high school, with a three-year Junior and a three-year Senior High division. However, the junior high division was suspended in 1957. In 1987, HCHS was directed to set up a math and science gifted class, 1998 a music-gifted class, and in 2004 a language and literature gifted class. Buildings and facilities HCHS c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East District, Hsinchu
East District () is a district in east Hsinchu City, Taiwan. It is the second largest of the three districts in Hsinchu City. The East District is home to the Hsinchu Science and Industrial Park. Geography * Area: * Population: 208,122 (January 2016) Administrative divisions The district consists of Nanmen, Fude, Nanshi, Guandi, Tungmen, Rongguang, Chenggong, Xiazhu, Zhulian, Siqian, Yuxian, Zhongzheng, Gongyuan, Dingzhu, Nanda, Zhenxing, Qinren, Wenhua, Fuzhong, Sanmin, Tungyuan, Tungshi, Guangfu, Fenggong, Wugong, Lushui, Tungshan, Guangzhen, Xinxing, Zhaiqiao, Gaofeng, Xiangong, Guangming, Ligong, Jungong, Jiangong, Qianxi, Shuiyuan, Qianjia, Puding, Longshan, Xinzhuang, Xianshui, Jinshan, Guantung, Keyuan, Jianhua, Xinguang, Fuxing, Jinhua, Hubin, Minghu and Guanxin Village.https://www.cec.gov.tw/pc/en/TV/nm10018000100000000.html Government institutions * National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center * National Space Organization * National Applied Research Laboratories ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burn-Jeng Lin
Burn-Jeng Lin (; born 1942) is a Taiwanese engineer. Education Lin earned his doctorate from Ohio State University in 1970. Career While working for IBM, Lin became the first to propose immersion lithography, a technique that became viable in the 1980s. Lin left IBM to found his own company, Linnovation, Inc., in 1992. He began working for TSMC in 2000. Lin was named an IEEE Fellow in 2003, and granted an equivalent honor by the SPIE. The next year, SPIE gave Lin the inaugural Frits Zernike Award. In 2008, Lin was elected to membership of the United States National Academy of Engineering "for technical innovations and leadership in the development of lithography for semiconductor manufacturing." Lin received the IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award and IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal in 2009 and 2013 respectively. In 2014, Lin was named a member of Academia Sinica. Upon his retirement from TSMC, he was offered a position on the faculty of National Tsing Hua University National Tsing H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kopin Liu
Kopin Liu (; born 25 January 1949) is a Taiwanese physical chemist. Liu is a 1971 graduate of National Tsing Hua University. He moved to the United States to pursue a doctorate at Ohio State University. Liu began his research career at the Georgia Institute of Technology. After one year, he moved to Argonne National Laboratory, where he remained until 1993. Since his return to Taiwan, Liu has held several posts at Academia Sinica. He said in 2000 that working at Academia Sinica meant a large pay cut, but that he returned to teach Taiwan's future scientists while working on research. Liu received two five-year grants as a fellow of the Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship, an organization founded by Yuan T. Lee in 1994. In 1998, Liu was granted fellowship by the American Physical Society. Equivalent honors were bestowed by The World Academy of Sciences in 2005, and the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2013. He became a member of the Academia Sinica in 2004 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guggenheim Fellow
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation issues awards in each of two separate competitions: * One open to citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada. * The other to citizens and permanent residents of Latin America and the Caribbean. The Latin America and Caribbean competition is currently suspended "while we examine the workings and efficacy of the program. The U.S. and Canadian competition is unaffected by this suspension." The performing arts are excluded, although composers, film directors, and choreographers are eligible. The fellowships are not open to students, only to "advanced professionals in mid-career" such as published authors. The fellows may spend the money as they see fit, as the purpose is to give fellows "b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Ou-fan Lee
Leo Ou-fan Lee (; born 10 October 1942) is a Chinese commentator and author who was elected Fellow of Academia Sinica in 2002. Lee also was a professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong, Princeton University, Indiana University, University of Chicago, University of California, Los Angeles, and Harvard University. Lee has served as columnist of several publications, such as the ''Yazhou Zhoukan'', ''Hong Kong Economic Journal'', ''Ming Pao'', and ''Muse''. Biography Lee was born in a wealthy and highly educated family in Taikang County, Henan in 1942. Both his father Li Yonggang () and mother Zhou Yuan () were musicians and educators. His given name "Ou-fan" is the Chinese version of Orpheus, the Greek god of music. Lee graduated from National Hsinchu Senior High School and National Taiwan University. He first took a master's degree from University of Chicago, where he was inspired by T.H. Tsien to study Chinese literature. He then went on to study at Harvard University, where h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ming-Chang Lin
Lin Ming-chang (; born 24 October 1936) is a Taiwanese chemist. Born in Zhaomen, Xinpu, Hsinchu, on 24 October 1936, Lin Ming-chang attended Hsinchu Senior High School and graduated from National Taiwan Normal University before pursuing graduate study under Keith J. Laidler at the University of Ottawa. After completing his postdoctoral research in Ottawa, Lin joined Simon H. Bauer at Cornell University in 1967. Lin moved to the United States Naval Research Laboratory in 1970. While working at the NRL, Lin received a Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award in 1979, followed by a Guggenheim fellowship and Alexander von Humboldt Award in 1982. From 1981, Lin concurrently held an adjunct professorship at the Catholic University of America. in 1988, he became Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Chemistry at Emory University. In 2000, he became a member of Academia Sinica. Lin was named TSMC Distinguished Professor at National Chiao Tung University in 2005, where he had served as dire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chang Gung Medical School
Chang may refer to: People Surname * Chang (surname), the romanization of several separate Chinese surnames * Chang or Jang (Korean name), romanizations of the Korean surname Given name * Chang Bunker () (1811–1874), one of the original Siamese twins * Liu Chang (other) * Chang, the younger brother in the children's book ''Tikki Tikki Tembo'' * Chang (Star Trek), a Klingon general from the film ''Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country'' * Chang Koehan, a Korean character from ''The King of Fighters'' * Benjamin Chang, a Chinese character from ''Community'' Pseudonym * Chang (director) (born Yoon Hong-seung, 1975), a South Korean film director Ethnography * Chang Naga, a tribe of Tuensang in Nagaland, India * Chang language, spoken by the Chang Naga Places * Chang, Bhiwani, a village in the Indian state of Haryana * Chang, Iran, a village in Hormozgan Province of Iran Other uses * Chang, chaang, or chhaang, a traditional alcoholic barley drink of T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yun-Fan Liaw
Liaw Yun-fan (; born 1942) is a Taiwanese hepatologist. He attended Hsinchu Senior High School and earned his medical degree from the College of Medicine at National Taiwan University in 1967. Liaw completed his residency in internal medicine at National Taiwan University, where he became chief resident. After Liaw's residency, he began teaching as a clinical assistant professor at the National Defense Medical Center. He joined the Chang Gung University Medical College faculty in 1987, having served as director of the affiliated Department of Hepato-Gastroenterology and the Liver Research Unit at the Chang Gung Memorial Hospital since 1976. Liaw was named a member of the Academia Sinica in 2000. That same year, he helped compile a hepatitis B prevention guide for use across Asia after attending the International Liver Congress in Fukuoka, Japan. In 2012, Liaw was appointed distinguished chair professor, and was honored by the European Association for the Study of the Liver as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consistently ranks among the most prestigious universities in the United States and the world. The university was named for its first benefactor, the American entrepreneur and Quaker philanthropist Johns Hopkins. Hopkins' $7 million bequest to establish the university was the largest Philanthropy, philanthropic gift in U.S. history up to that time. Daniel Coit Gilman, who was inaugurated as :Presidents of Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins's first president on February 22, 1876, led the university to revolutionize higher education in the U.S. by integrating teaching and research. In 1900, Johns Hopkins became a founding member of the American Association of Universities. The university has led all Higher education in the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuan-Chuan Lee
Yuan-Chuan Lee (; born 30 March 1932) is a Taiwanese biochemist who is currently a professor at Johns Hopkins University in the United States. A Hsinchu City native born on 30 March 1932, Yuan-Chuan Lee was the eldest son of painter Lee Tze-fan and his wife. Yuan-Chuan Lee graduated from Hsinchu Senior High School, as did his brothers Yuan T. Lee and Yuan-Pern Lee. Lee then attended National Taiwan University, where he earned a bachelor's of science degree in 1955, followed by a master's of science in agricultural chemistry in 1957. Lee completed his doctorate at the University of Iowa in 1962 under the supervision of Rex Montgomery. Lee moved to the University of California, Berkeley for postdoctoral research with Clinton Ballou, and joined the Johns Hopkins University faculty in 1965, where he was appointed Academy Professor in 2011. In 1994, Yuan-Chuan Lee became a member of Academia Sinica. Seven years later, Lee received the Claude S. Hudson Award in Carbohydrate Chemi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Taiwan University
National Taiwan University (NTU; ) is a public research university in Taipei, Taiwan. The university was founded in 1928 during Japanese rule as the seventh of the Imperial Universities. It was named Taihoku Imperial University and served during the period of Japanese colonization. After World War II, the Nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) government assumed the administration of the university. The Ministry of Education reorganized and renamed the university to its current name on November 15, 1945, with its roots of liberal tradition from Peking University in Beijing by former NTU President Fu Ssu-nien. The university consists of 11 colleges, 56 departments, 133 graduate institutes, about 60 research centers, and a school of professional education and continuing studies. Notable alumni include Tsai Ing-Wen, current President of the Republic of China, former presidents Lee Teng-hui, Chen Shui-bian and Ma Ying-jeou, Turing Award laureate Andrew Yao, and Nobel Prize in Chemistry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Society Of Chemistry
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is a learned society (professional association) in the United Kingdom with the goal of "advancing the chemistry, chemical sciences". It was formed in 1980 from the amalgamation of the Chemical Society, the Royal Institute of Chemistry, the Faraday Society, and the Society for Analytical Chemistry with a new Royal Charter and the dual role of learned society and professional body. At its inception, the Society had a combined membership of 34,000 in the UK and a further 8,000 abroad. The headquarters of the Society are at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London. It also has offices in Thomas Graham House in Cambridge (named after Thomas Graham (chemist), Thomas Graham, the first president of the Chemical Society) where ''RSC Publishing'' is based. The Society has offices in the United States, on the campuses of The University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University, at the University City Science Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in both Beijing a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
