Ching W. Tang

Ching W. Tang ( born July 23, 1947 in Yuen Long, Hong Kong ) is a Chinese - American chemist.

Tang studied at the University of British Columbia ( Bachelor 1970) and in 1975 received his doctorate from Cornell University in Physical Chemistry. From 1975 he was a researcher at Eastman Kodak, from 1981 as a Senior Research Scientist, from 1990 as a Research Associate and from 1998 as a Senior Research Associate. In 2003 he was Distinguished Fellow of the Kodak Research Laboratories. From 2006 he is Doris Johns Cherry Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Rochester.

Tang is known as the inventor of the organic LED (OLED ) from the 1970s and other optoelectronic devices (such as the organic solar cell, the organic photovoltaic cell, OPVC ). He carried with various inventions and the flat screen technology (including with OLEDs).

2013 Tang was honored with the Award of the Eduard Rhein Foundation. In 2011 he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 2005 and the Humboldt Research Award, the 2007 Daniel Noble Award from the IEEE in 2001 and the Jan- Rachjmann Prize and the Carrothers Award of the American Chemical Society. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering ( 2006). He has an honorary professor at the Shanghai University (whose honorary doctorate he is) and the South China University of Technology.