Rayson Huang
| Rayson Huang | |
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| Life Member of the Court of HKU | |
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Assumed office 9 January 1987 Serving with Kan Yuet-keung, Yang Ti-liang and Victor Fung |
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| Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong | |
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In office 1972–1986 |
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| Preceded by | Kenneth E. Robinson |
| Succeeded by | Wang Gungwu |
| Vice-Chancellor of the Nanyang University | |
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In office 1969–1972 |
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| Preceded by | Huang Ying-jung |
| Succeeded by | Shou-sheng Hsueh |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 September 1920 |
| Died | 8 April 2015 (aged 94) United Kingdom |
| Spouse(s) | Grace Li |
| Alma mater |
BSc (HKU) DPhi, DSc (Oxf) DSc (UM) |
Rayson Huang, CBE (Chinese: 黃麗松; pinyin: Huáng Lìsōng; 1 September 1920 − 8 April 2015), was a Hong Kong chemist, who was an expert on radicals. He was the first Chinese Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong, a position in which he served from 1972 until 1986.
Huang's family came from Shantou, Guangdong. He completed his primary and secondary education at Munsang College, where his father was the founding principal. He later attended St. John's University in Shanghai in 1937, but his studies were interrupted by the Japanese invasion. After 1938 he continued his studies as a scholarship student at the University of Hong Kong. In Hong Kong Huang majored in chemistry at St. John's Hall (now called St. John's College). In addition to his academic studies, Huang was an accomplished violinist. Following the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong in 1941, Huang briefly worked with British auxiliary forces and was responsible for detecting chemical weapons. In 1942 his studies at the University were interrupted when the school was forced to close. Huang returned to China in 1942 and arrived in Guangxi. By 1945 Huang had followed other members of the University of Hong Kong chemistry department to Britain and received a scholarship to study at the Oxford University's Institute of Chemistry. He received at doctorate in chemistry and subsequently pursued his post-doctoral research at the University of Chicago. During his study in Chicago, he met his future wife Grace Wei Huang.
In 1951, Huang taught chemistry at the University of Malaya in Singapore (now National University of Singapore) and later he was transferred to University of Malaya's Kuala Lumpur campus. He became a tenured professor of chemistry and then acting Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the Faculty of Science.
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