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Our Vice-Chancellors:
A Biographical Sketch
 

Rayson Lisung Huang
1969-1972

 

 


Education
BSc. Hons (Univ. of Hong Kong)
DPhi, DSc (Oxford Univ.); DSc (Univ. of Malaya)

 

Career

  
1943
 		 Demonstrator in Chemistry, National Kwangsi University
1947-50 Post-doctoral Fellow and Research Associate, University of Chicago
 
1951-59 Lecturer, later Reader in Chemistry, University of Malaya, Singapore
 
1959-69 Professor of Chemistry & Head of Dept., University of Malaya (Kuala Lumpur)
 		  
1962-65

1965-66		 Dean of Science, University of Malaya (Kuala Lumpur)

Acting Vice-Chancellor, University of Malaya (Kuala Lumpur)
 
1969-72

1972-86		 Vice-Chancellor, Nanyang University

Vice-Chancellor, Hong Kong University till retirement

 
 

 

Offices held

President, Association of Southeast Asian Institutions of Higher Learning
Chairman, Association of Commonwealth Universities
Vice-Chairman of Council, Shantou University

 

 

Honours

Commander, Order of the British Empire
Justice of the Peace
Hon. Doctor of Science (University of Hong Kong)
Order of the Rising Sun (Japan)

 

 

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