Taiwan academician wins Guinier Prize

2015/08/31

An academician from Taipei City-based Academia Sinica recently won the prestigious Guinier Prize for outstanding contributions to the field of small-angle scattering.

Chen Sow-hsin was nominated by U.K.-headquartered International Union of Crystallography for a lifetime of achievement in employing the powerful technique to carry out original and fundamental studies of soft matter and complex fluids. During a 50-year academic career, he has published more than 450 papers and a textbook on scattering methods in complex fluids.

Some of these include important submissions on the development of new methods for data analysis and pioneering experiments on the structure and mutual interactions of such self-assembled systems as micelles and microemulsions.

According to Academia Sinica, Chen will be presented with the award at the 16th International Conference on Small-Angle Scattering next month in Berlin.

An alumnus of National Taiwan University and Graduate School of Nuclear Science at Hsinchu City-based National Tsing-Hua University, Chen received his doctorate of physics from McMaster University in Canada under Nobel laureate B. N. Brockhouse.

Chen, currently a professor emeritus with the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was elected an AS academician in 2006. He is also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society and Neutron Scattering Society of America, which awarded him the Clifford G. Shull Prize in 2008.

First presented in 2002, the triennial prize is named after French solid-state physicist Andre Guinier, who was widely hailed as the father of small-angle scattering.

Source: Taiwan Today (http://taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xItem=234324&ctNode=413)