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Top Scientist And Technologist Award Of Korea
Top Scientist and Technologist Award of Korea () is one of two annual awards given in South Korea by the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies () with the other being a government award for contribution to science and technology promotion. The Top Scientist and Technologist Award of Korea was started in 2003 as the successor to the Science and Technology Award of Korea which was established in 1968. The award is to foster honor and pride and create an environment in which people can focus on research and development by discovering and encouraging scientists and engineers with outstanding achievements who can represent South Korea. While previously given to multiple individuals, from 2003 only person is selected for each cycle. Laureates receive the award and 300 million KRW cash prize. Laureates See also * National Scientist of the Republic of Korea * List of general science and technology awards * Highest Science and Technology Award The Highest Science and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Kimoon
Kim Kimoon (born 1954) is a South Korean chemist and professor in the Department of Chemistry at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH). He is the first and current director of the Center for Self-assembly and Complexity at the Institute for Basic Science. Kim has authored or coauthored 300 papers which have been cited more than 30,000 times and he holds a number of patents. His work has been published in ''Nature'', ''Nature Chemistry'', ''Angewandte Chemie'', and '' JACS'', among others. He has been a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher in the field of chemistry in 2014, 2015, 2016. His research has focused on developing novel functional materials and devices based on supramolecular chemistry. In particular, his research group has worked on a various functional materials based on cucurbiturils (CB ), pumpkin-shaped macrocyclic molecules, and metal-organic porous materials for catalysis, separation, and gas storage. His discovery and isolation of new members ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dong-a Ilbo
The ''Dong-A Ilbo'' (, literally ''East Asia Daily'') is a newspaper of record in Korea since 1920 with a daily circulation of more than 1.2 million and opinion leaders as its main readers. ''The Dong-A Ilbo'' is the parent company of Dong-A Media Group (DAMG), which is composed of 11 affiliates including Sports Dong-A, Dong-A Science, DUNet, and dongA.com, as well as Channel A, general service cable broadcasting company launched on 1 December 2011. It covers a variety of areas including news, drama, entertainment, sports, education, and movies. ''The Dong-A Ilbo'' has partnered with international news companies such as ''The New York Times'' of the United States of America, ''The Asahi Shimbun'' of Japan and ''The People's Daily'' of China. It has correspondents stationed in five major cities worldwide including Washington D.C., New York, San Francisco, Beijing, Tokyo, Cairo and Paris. It also publishes global editions in 90 cities worldwide including New York, London, Paris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ewha Womans University
Ewha Womans University () is a private women's university in Seoul founded in 1886 by Mary F. Scranton under Emperor Gojong. It was the first university founded in South Korea. Currently, Ewha is one of the world's largest female educational institutes and one of the most prestigious universities in South Korea. It is the only university in Korea that has an exchange program with Harvard University. History Ewha Womans University traces its roots back to Mary F. Scranton's Ewha Haktang () mission school for girls, which opened with one student on May 31, 1886. The name Ewha, which means “Pear Blossom,” was bestowed by the Emperor Gojong the following year. The image of the pear blossom is incorporated in the school's logo. The school began providing college courses in 1910, and professional courses for women in 1925. The high school section, now known as Ewha Girls' High School (not to be confused with the coeducational Ewha Womans University High School, the universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yonsei University
Yonsei University (; ) is a private research university in Seoul, South Korea. As a member of the "SKY" universities, Yonsei University is deemed one of the three most prestigious institutions in the country. It is particularly respected in the studies of medicine and business administration. The student body consists of 26,731 undergraduate students, 11,994 graduate students, 4,518 faculty members, 6,788 staff, and 257,931 alumni. Yonsei operates its main campus in Seoul and offers graduate, postgraduate and doctoral programs in Korean and English. The university was established in January 1957 through the union of Yonhi College (연희전문학교; 延禧專門學校) and Severance Union Medical College (세브란스 의과대학; 세브란스 醫科大學). This was a result of a lasting bilateral cooperation between the colleges that began in the 1920s. The institutions were the first of their kinds in Korea. Yonhi College was one of the first modern colleges, founded as C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jisoon Ihm
Jisoon Ihm is a South Korean physicist and Distinguished Professor in Department of Physics at Pohang University of Science and Technology in Pohang, South Korea. Education * B.S. in Physics at Seoul National University * M.A. in Physics at University of California at Berkeley * Ph.D. in Physics at University of California at Berkeley Works *1980–1982: postdoc at MIT *1982–1984: postdoc at AT&T Bell Labs *1984–1986: member of Technical Staff at Bell Communications Research *1986–2016: professor at Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University *2016–present: Distinguished Professor at Department of Physics, POSTECH Awards and recognition His first paper published in 1979 spawned a new area in condensed matter physics, namely, “computational materials physics,” and the paper is nowadays regarded as classic in the field. He also published an invited review article on this subject as a single author in Reports on Progress in Physics in 1988. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suh Jin-suck
Jin-Suck Suh is a South Korean medical professor. He graduated with MD from Yonsei University in 1979. He received PhD in 1999 from Ajou University Ajou University () is a private research university located in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. It was founded in 1973 by an agreement between the governments of France and the Republic of Korea. Ajou University started as Ajou Engineeri .... He is the Avison Distinguished Professor, 2011 at Yonsei University. Suh is a director as well as a principal investigator in imaging development projects of medical convergence research institute at Yonsei University. Education Suh graduated with MD from Yonsei University in 1979. He received PhD in 1999 from Ajou University. His PhD thesis has focused on metal induced MR imaging artifacts. Suh took the residency 4-years training and 2 years fellowship in department of Radiology, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University. Research Suh's subspecialty is the imaging for the musculoske ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
