San Thang

Thang Hoa San AC, FTSE, FRACI, FAA (Vietnamese: Thang Hoa Sân, Chinese: 湯華燊;[1] born 28 August 1954) is an Australian chemist of Chinese-Vietnamese background.

San Thang

AC, FTSE, FRACI, FAA
Born (1954-08-28) 28 August 1954
Saigon, Vietnam
NationalityVietnamese
CitizenshipAustralian
Alma materGriffith University
Scientific career
FieldsPolymer chemistry
InstitutionsCSIRO
Monash University

Thang was born in Saigon in 1954 to Chinese parents who migrated to Vietnam in the 1930s.[1] He completed his Bachelor of Science at Saigon University in 1976, and worked as a chemist at SINCO, a sewing machine manufacturer. In 1979, Thang left Vietnam as a refugee from the Vietnam War, and spent five months in a refugee camp in Malaysia before arriving in Brisbane, Australia later in the year.[1] He enrolled at Griffith University where he completed an Honours degree in chemistry and a PhD in organic chemistry.[2]

In 1986, Thang joined the CSIRO, the Australian government's scientific agency. In 1987, he left to join ICI Australia, but returned to CSIRO in 1990.[2] In September 2014, research by Thomson Reuters for their citation laureate prize named Thang as one of a trio of CSIRO scientists (together with Ezio Rizzardo and Graeme Moad) most likely to be contenders for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work in co-developing the reversible addition−fragmentation chain-transfer polymerization (RAFT) process. The three had shared the ATSE Clunies-Ross Award earlier that year.[3] However, in December that year, Thang revealed that he had been laid off by the organisation in September, but had continued to work there unpaid in an honorary position.[4] He later worked as a professor for Beijing University of Chemical Technology, and in May 2015, joined Monash University as a professor of chemistry and was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.[5]

References
  1. "Happy Weekend with Professor San Thang". SBS Radio. Retrieved 11 June 2018.
  2. "San Thang". CSIROpedia. CSIRO. Retrieved 11 June 2018.
  3. Smith, Bridie (25 September 2014). "CSIRO scientists Graeme Moad, San Thang and Ezio Rizzardo named as Nobel prize contenders". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 11 June 2018.
  4. "A lesson in humility from sacked CSIRO scientist". ABC News. 4 December 2014. Retrieved 11 June 2018.
  5. "Researcher elected as new Fellow to Australian Academy of Science". Monash University. Retrieved 11 June 2018.
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