Professor Henry N.C. Wong, extraordinary synthetic chemist and great mentor

Professor Henry N.C.Wong obtained his B.Sc.degree with First Class Honours from The Chinese University of Hong Kong(CUHK)in 1973 and his Ph.D.degree from University College London(with Professor Franz Sondheimer)in 1976.After working at Harvard University as a Postdoctoral Associate with Professor Robert B.Woodward,he returned to University College London to begin his independent research undertaking as Ramsay Memorial Fellow.From 1980 to 1982,Professor Wong did research at Shanghai Inst让ute of Organic Chemistry,The Chinese Academy of Sciences.In 1982,he went back to Hong Kong,and started his career at CUHK his alma mater.He retired in 2018,and is now Emeritus Professor of Chemistry and Research Profess or.