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1 day ago · 16 Oct 2024 || By Annie Lewis. We sit down with the Michelin-starred chef to talk combining history, chemistry and food to redefine Chinese cuisine. Having grown up in his parent’s Cantonese restaurant, Kym’s, Andrew Wong was adamant he didn’t want to be a chef. One glance at his family tree, however, and it’s obvious hospitality was in ...
Wong earned his Bachelor of Science (B.S.) and Master of Science (M.S.) in biochemical sciences from National Taiwan University in Taipei. He then received a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1982 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the direction of George M. Whitesides.
He received his B.Sc (Hons I), specialising in Bioinformatics from the University of Sydney. As an Oxford-Australia scholar, he went on to complete a D.Phil in Bioanalytical Chemistry at the University of Oxford, UK.
His father wanted him to become a chef but he chose to study chemistry in school. In 2003, after his father's death, he accepted his mother's request to help run the four family restaurants. Since then, he has studied cooking at Westminster Kingsway College, taken Chinese cultural classes in China, and opened his own restaurants.
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After two postdoctoral research years at Harvard University, Professor Wong returned to University College London to begin his independent research undertaking as Ramsay Memorial Fellow. From 1980 to 1982, he did research at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, The Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Professor Wong is a native of Hong Kong with roots in Taishan, Guangdong. In 1969, he was admitted to the Department of Chemistry of United College, CUHK and graduated in 1973 with a BSc degree with first-class honours. He went on to University College London (UCL) for postgraduate study with a Shell Scholarship.
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Sep 14, 2021 · LA JOLLA, CA— The Welch Foundation, one of the nation’s largest sources of private funding for basic chemical research, has announced that Scripps Research Professor Chi-Huey Wong, PhD, is the 2021 recipient of the prestigious Robert A. Welch Award in Chemistry.
