1995  SCIENCE & ENGINEERING AWARD  LAUREATE

Sheng Hsien Lin 林聖賢

Born in Changhua in 1937, Dr. Lin graduated from National Taiwan University with a BS degree and MS degree in Chemistry, and from Utah University with a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Colombia University, and became a professor of Chemistry at Arizona State University. He is currently Director and Special Distinguished Research Fellow of Institute of Atomic and Molecular Science, Academia Sinica and also serves as a professor of Chemistry at National Taiwan University.

Special Achievement

He has devoted himself to the research and the teaching of physical chemistry and theoretical chemistry for over twenty-nine years. As a theorist concerned with molecular and atomic phenomena, he developed brilliant new theories and interacted particularly well with experimentalists. He contributed greatly in gas phase spectroscopy, solid state structural and electronic effects and surface science, and is widely recognized as a Nobel class scientist by four Nobel laureates and other scientists in the world. He has authored more than three hundred papers and five books and had received numerous prestigious awards. After returning to Taiwan in 1993, he has gradually transformed the Institute of Atomic and Molecular Science gradually into a world class research institute.