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Professor Vivian Wing-Wah Yam (born February 10, 1963) CSci, CChem, FRSC,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.chemistry.hku.hk/staff/wwwyam/vwwyam.php )〕 is a chemist from Hong Kong. The youngest member to be elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (as of 2013), she was a 2011 L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science laureate〔 "for her work on light-emitting materials and innovative ways of capturing solar energy."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.unesco.org/archives/multimedia/index.php?s=films_details&pg=33&id=2161 )〕 ==Life== Yam was born in British Hong Kong. Her father was a civil engineer, although Yam says that neither he nor her mother steered her towards her career. Yam cites being intrigued by the sight of mercury and a workaholic and pregnant biology teacher who taught her up to the very last minute.〔 Yam attended an Anglican grammar school. She received her B.Sc in Chemistry (1985) and PhD (1988) degrees at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) where she was on the badminton team, studying under Chi-Ming Che. She married Patrick Shing-Tat whom she met in Che's laboratory and they conducted research together. In 1988, she became a junior faculty member at the Department of Applied Science, City Polytechnic of Hong Kong; at the time, there were no facilities at all for teaching chemistry. She helped with establishing the first chemistry books in the library as well as ordering the first beakers and chemicals.〔 Yam's work took her to Caltech in the late 1980s. After a spell at the University of Rochester in 1990 she went to study at the Imperial College London in 1991 and stayed until 1992. She worked with the Nobel laureate Geoffrey Wilkinson. Her research turned to organometallic synthesis "studying the luminescence of complexes with metal–metal interactions". She worked with tetraethyllead which at the time was not a banned additives for petrol. This work was on the border between organic and inorganic chemicals.〔 Yam has been associated particularly with the elements osmium, platinum and ruthenium.〔 She joined the HKU faculty in 2001 where she is the Philip Wong Wilson Wong Professor of Chemistry and Energy. Yam became a Fulbright Scholar in 2007.〔 Yam was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2001, becoming the youngest member. The previous holder of this record was, Che, Yam's earlier mentor.〔 She was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World in 2006 and a member of the Foreign Associate of National Academy of Sciences in 2012.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vivian Wing-Wah Yam」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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