AWARDEE OF CHEMISTRY PRIZE

HUI YONGZHENG

Professor Hui Yongzheng, a scientist in the organic chemistry, was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province in 1939. He graduated from Chemistry Department of Peking University in 1962, and engaged in organic chemistry research at Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC) of Chinese Academy of Sciences after graduation. Prof. Hui used to be deputy director, director of SIOC. From 1991 to 1998, prof. Hui was vice minister of the State Science and Technology Commission, and vice minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology from 1998 to 2000. As a visiting scientist, he researched on organic chemistry at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Rutgers University in USA during 1982-1983. In 1987, he was appointed as a member of permanent board of International Conference of Computers in Chemical Research and Education Trustees. Prof. Hui was elected  the fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences and the member of Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 1995, in 1998 respectively. He was also elected  one of the Ten Distinguished Scientists in Shanghai in 1989. Right now, prof. Hui, as the director of Innovation Research Center of Chinese Traditional Medicine in Shanghai, is engaging in research on Chinese traditional medicine.
Prof. Hui is one of pioneers in computer chemistry in China. As early as in 1970s, he first  advocated to push the research and application of computer chemistry in China, then he organized a study group in this regard in 1975, which has become the key laboratory in computer chemistry under Chinese Academy of Sciences. Prof. Hui is also one of the chemists who did research on supramolecular chemistry(Host-Guest Systems, Amylose and Vesicle Chemistry) at early time in China. He is a co-writers of Frontiers in Supramolecular Organic Chemistry and Photochemistry(VCH, 1991). Prof. Hui got high reputation for his excellent research work on carbohydrate chemistry(Saponins and Oligosaccharides Syntheses and Structure Elucidation), he issued a lot of papers in this field.
Prof. Hui has published in domestic and international journals more than 150 papers. He won the first class award in Science and Technology Progress Prize and the first class award in Science and Technology Invention Prize, CAS in 1986 and 1997, and won the third class award of National Natural Science Prize in 1988.