Edward S Yeung

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Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Edward Yeung

Edward Yeung received his A.B. in chemistry from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley. Since then, he has been on the chemistry faculty at Iowa State University, where he is currently Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Liberal Arts and Sciences. His research interests span both spectroscopy and chromatography. He was an Associate Editor of Analytical Chemistry and a co-editor of Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry. He served on the editorial advisory board of Progress in Analytical SpectroscopyJournal of Capillary ElectrophoresisMikrochimica ActaSpectrochimica Acta Part AJournal of Microcolumn SeparationsElectrophoresis, Journal of High Resolution ChromatographyChromatographia and Journal of Biochemical and Biophysical Methods. He was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship and was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was appointed Honorary Professors of Zhengzhou University, Zhongshan University, Xiamen University and Hunan University, Distinguished Chair Professor of National Taiwan University, and Fellow of the School of Engineering of the University of Tokyo. He received the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Chemical Instrumentation, 4 separate R&D 100 Awards, the Lester W. Strock Award, the Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award, the L. S. Palmer Award, the ACS Fisher Award in Analytical Chemistry, the Frederick Conference on Capillary Electrophoresis Award, the Eastern Analytical Symposium Award in Analytical Chemistry, the ACS Award in Chromatography, the International Prize of the Belgian Society of Pharmaceutical Sciences, the Eastern Analytical Symposium Award in Separation Science, the Ralph N. Adams Award in Bioanalytical Chemistry, the Golay Award, the Chicago Chromatography Discussion Group Merit Award, the A. J. P. Martin Medal of the Chromatographic Society and the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Analytical Chemistry.

Department: 
Chemistry
Area of Expertise: 
Analytical Spectroscopy
Education: 
B.S., Chemistry, Cornell University
Ph.D., Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley
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