Ching Wan Tang is a Hong Kong-American physical chemist, born in 1947, who was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2018 for inventing the organic light-emitting diode together with Steven Van Slyke, and who was awarded the 2011 Wolf Prize in Chemistry. He is the IAS Bank of East Asia Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and previously served as the Doris Johns Cherry Professor at the University of Rochester.
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Ching Wan Tang (Chinese: 鄧青雲; pinyin: Dèng Qīngyún; born July 23, 1947) is a Hong Kong-American physical chemist.
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for inventing OLED (together with Steven Van Slyke)
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The invention of OLED can be attributed to two chemists at Eastman Kodak in 1987, namely Ching Wan Tang and Steven Van Slyke.
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He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2018 for inventing OLED (together with Steven Van Slyke), and was awarded the 2011 Wolf Prize in Chemistry.
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