Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/11/29
By: Tang Pei-chun and William Yen
Brussels, Nov. 29 (CNA) Taiwanese academic Shih Chih-jen (施智仁) has become the
Taiwanese academic Shih Chih-jen (施智仁, center)/photo courtesy of Taiwan’s representative office in Switzerland
first Asian to receive Switzerland’s most prestigious chemistry award, Taiwan’s representative office in the European country said Wednesday.
Shih, an assistant professor at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich, was awarded the Ruzicka-Preis on Tuesday for his research and development of the highest purest form of the green light-emitting diode, the office said.
The Ruzicka-Preis is an annual prize awarded to a researcher under the age of 40 for an outstanding piece of published work in the field of chemistry, carried out in Switzerland or by a Swiss researcher abroad, according to ETH Zurich’s website.
The award was named after ETH Zurich Professor Leopold Ruzicka, the 1939 winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. [FULL STORY]
