Ho-Am Prize in Science
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Winners of the Ho-Am Prize
in Science (from 1991 to 2011, the Ho-Am Prize in Science & Technology):
Ho-Am Prize
The Ho-Am Prize is a Korean annual award awarded to "domestic/abroad ethnic Korean who have made outstanding contributions to the development of science and culture and enhancement of the welfare of mankind," often referred to as the Korean equivalent of the Nobel Prize.Awarded since 1991, it is...
in Science (from 1991 to 2011, the Ho-Am Prize in Science & Technology):
- 1991: Sang-Kyu Kyong
- 1992: Jihn E. Kim
- 1993: Choong-Ki Kim
- 1994: Sung-Hou Kim
- 1995: Sue-Goo Rhee
- 1996: Won-Yong Lee
- 1997: Hyuk Yu
- 1998: Peter S. KimPeter S. KimPeter S. Kim is president of Merck Research Laboratories . Kim was promoted to this position in January 2003. In this role he oversees all of Merck's drug and vaccine research and development activities....
- 1999: Myung-Hwan Whangbo
- 2000: Pill-Soon SongPill-Soon SongPill-Soon Song is a professor in Jeju National University, Jeju, Korea. Song specializes in molecular photobiology. He worked on the structure-function relation of phytochromes and other photoreceptors including stentorin and blepharismin...
- 2001: Edward C. Lim
- 2002: Mannque RhoMannque RhoMannque Rho is a Korean theoretical physicist.He has been contributed to theoretical nuclear/hadron physics and suggested Brown-Rho Scaling with Gerald E. Brown which predicts how the masses of the hadrons disappear in hot and dense environments.-Birth and education:Mannque Rho was born in...
- 2003: Hongkun ParkHongkun ParkHongkun Park is a professor of chemistry and of physics at Harvard University. He received his B.S. in chemistry at Seoul National University in 1990, and his Ph.D. in physical chemistry at Stanford University in 1996 under Richard Zare. From 1996 to 1999 he was a postdoctoral fellow at Lawrence...
- 2004: Hee-Sup Shin
- 2005: Young-Kee Kim
- 2006: Kimoon Kim
- 2007: Sang-Wook Cheong
- 2008: Philip KimPhilip KimPhilip Kim is a condensed matter physicist known for study of quantum transport in carbon nanotubes and graphene, including observations of quantum Hall effects in graphene.-Academic career:...
- 2009: Jun-Muk Hwang
- 2010: Ryoo RyongRyoo RyongRyoo Ryong is a professor of chemistry at KAIST in Daejeon, South Korea. He is the head of the Center for Functional Nanomaterials. Ryoo has won a variety of awards, including the Top Scientist Award given by the South Korean government in 2005...
- 2011: Taekjip Ha