It is announced by American Chemistry Society that Prof. Xia Younan from University of Washington (Seattle-based) Chemistry Department obtains the 2005 Baekeland Prize for his outstanding achievements in chemistry, physics and nanometer materials application. Prof. Xia Younan will attend the Baekeland Prize Awarding Ceremony in Lucent Headquarters located in Jasmine Country Villa of US New Zealand State and deliver the theme lecture under the invitation.

 

Baekeland Prize regarded as the highest prize in the US material chemistry field, including five thousand dollars and golden medal, aims at honoring the scientists who achieve the prominent accomplishments on pure chemistry and techno chemistry. According to the information provided by American Chemistry Society, Xia Younan is the first Chinese chemist awarded Baekeland Prize.

 

Xia Younan is born in 1965. He gets the Bachelor's degree in chemical physics of USTC, 1987; Master's degree in nonlinear optics of Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter CAS, 1990; Doctor's degree in chemistry and biochemistry of Harvard University, 1996.

 

Since 1997, Prof. Xia has taken up the post of associate professor in Chemistry Department of University of Washington (Seattle-based). He discovers the soft lithography which is used to create the nanometer or submicron-leveled structures by models made of elastic materials. Prof. Xia has published dozens of papers on the top scientific publications, such as Science, Nature, J.Am.Chem.Soc, Adv.Mate; 6 more special inviting comprehensive papers on Angew.Chem.Int.Ed and Annu.Rev.Mater.Sci.

 

Before Baekeland Prize, Xia Younan has been awarded several scholarly awards, comprising of Dreyfus New Faculty Award in 1997, Victor K. LaMer Award in 1999, Faculty Early Career Development Award, Research Fellow, David and Lucile Packard Foundation and Fellow in Science and Engineering of 2000.

 

Prof. Xia Younan always put concentrations on Chinese scientific developments. When Prof. Xia is the member of Advanced Materials editorial board published by WILEY publishing cooperation, he organizes the special issue which demonstrates the state of the art of China’s material science.