Academicians Daniel C. Tsui and Gregory C Chow were awarded honorary doctorates by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) 13 November "in recognition of their illustrious contributions and achievements."

Professor Tsui and Professor Chow, who received Doctor of Science and Doctor of Business Administration degrees, respectively, were two of four academics to receive doctorates from HKUST at the ceremony. All four received degrees in their respective fields honoris causa.

Professor Tsui received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1998 for what has since become known as the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect. He is currently the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University before which he worked for thirteen years in solid-state electronics at Bell Laboratories. Prof. Tsui's research interest is the electrical properties of thin films and microstructures of semiconductors and solid-state physics, and his current research is on the fundamental properties of electronic materials, especially conduction in ultrasmall structures, transport through heterojunctions, heterojunction transistors, and quantum physics of electronic materials in strong magnetic fields and low temperatures, in particular, the quantum Hall regime.

Professor Chow is Professor Emeritus of Princeton University. He is an expert in dynamic economic problems and creator of the "Chow Test", a standard statistical test for structural change in a regression. His publications include 14 books and over 200 publications. In addition to being an Academia Sinica Academician since 1970, Prof. Chow is a member of the American Philosophical Society, and a fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Econometric Society. He was Chairman of the American Economic Association’s Committee on Exchanges in Economics with the Mainland China from 1981 to 1994, and Co-Chairman of the U.S. Committee on Economics Education and Research in Mainland China from 1985 to 1994. He served as adviser to the Premier and the Commission on Restructuring the Economic System of Mainland China on the reform of the nation’s economy.

Related Websites:

Prof. Gregory C Chow http://www.princeton.edu/~gchow/

Prof. Daniel C. Tsui http://www.ee.princeton.edu/bios/tsuibio.html