Raymond Yong, (born April 10, 1929 in

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bor ...

) is a retired Canadian environmental engineer. His father, Yong Ngim Djin, was principal of

Anglo-Chinese School Anglo-Chinese School (ACS) is a family of Methodist schools in Singapore and Indonesia. It was founded in 1886 by Bishop William Fitzjames Oldham as an extension of the Methodist Church. Anglo-Chinese School is usually abbreviated as "ACS", wi ...

, and he first studied in the

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Washington & Jefferson College Washington & Jefferson College (W&J College or W&J) is a private liberal arts college in Washington, Pennsylvania. The college traces its origin to three log cabin colleges in Washington County established by three Presbyterian missionaries t ...

due to his godfather, who was a Methodist missionary. He started in medicine, but switched to physics. He became an important instructor at

McGill University McGill University (french: link=no, Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous ...

. He is also an authority on contaminated soil and has 60 patents. In 1985 he won the

Izaak-Walton-Killam Award The Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize was established according to the will of Dorothy J. Killam to honour the memory of her husband Izaak Walton Killam. Five Killam Prizes, each having a value of $100,000, are annually awarded by the Canada Cou ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Yong, Raymond Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Knights of the National Order of Quebec Fellows of the Engineering Institute of Canada Academic staff of McGill University 1929 births Washington & Jefferson College alumni Living people