Sunney Xie, Cheung Kong Visiting Professor of Peking University, was elected the Honorary Fellow of Chinese Chemistry Society. According to the official website of CCs, Xie is the first Chinese scientist that won that honor.

 

Sunney Xie is a world famous biophysical chemist and recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the illustrious Lawrence Award of Department of Energy of America. Besides CCS, he is also member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of AAAS, American Chemical Society, American Physical Society, Biophysical Society and Optical Society of America.

 

He received his bachelor’s degree from the Department of Chemistry of Peking University in 1980 and PhD degree from UCSD in 1990. After working at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for six years, he moved to Harvard University and in 2009 became Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University.

 

CCs is the largest national organization of Chinese chemists. Till now, there are 16 distinguished chemists around the world that have been elected its honorary fellows:

 

Prof.C. N. R. Rao	Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India
Prof.Nordén Bengt	Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Prof.Charles M. Lieber	Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, USA
Prof.Christopher David Garner	School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Prof.Flemming Besenbacher	Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Prof.Mostafa A. El-Sayed	Chemistry & Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Prof.Christian Amatore	Ecole Normale Superieure, Department de Chimie, UMR CNRS 8640 "PASTEUR", France
Prof.Akira Fujishima	Kanagawa Academy of Science & Technology, Japan
Prof.Jean-Marie André	Department of Chemistry, University of Namur, B-5000 Namur, Belgium
Prof. Allen J. Bard	Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Prof. V. Krishnan	Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (A Deemed University), Bangalore, India
Prof. O. M. Nefedov	N.D.Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Moscow, USSR
Prof. Peter J. Stang	Chemistry Department, University of Utah, USA
Prof. Paul S. Weiss	California NanoSystems, Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Prof. Xiaoliang Sunney Xie	Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, USA
Prof. Richard N. Zare	Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA