6 Alumni Elected World Top 100 Chemists

Thomson Reuters made an announcement on World Top 100 Chemists 2000-2010 in February 2011, based on Impact Factor of their published research papers in the last decade. There were 12 Chinese scientists on the list, including 6 alumni of University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).

There were millions of chemists who published their research papers on the academic journals approved and collected by Thomson Reuters in the last decade. Only 100 first-class chemists could be elected to World Top 100 Chemists . As hard-won as it was, the winners from USTC were: Yang Peidong (8812 schoolfellow, ranking 10 ), Duan Xiangfeng (9212 schoolfellow, ranking 31 ), Xia Younan (823 schoolfellow, ranking 35 ), Lin Wenbin (833 schoolfellow, ranking 54 ), Yin Yadong (9212 schoolfellow, ranking 55 ) and Sun Yugang (9212 schoolfellow, ranking 61 ).

Among them, there were 3 alumni, Duan Xiangfeng, Yin Yadong and Sun Yugang all came from thesame class of 9212of USTC. The rest of elected Chinese chemists are from Tsinghua University, Jilin University, Zhejiang University, Sichuan University, MIT and Xiamen University.

Some chemists of the list were also top scientists in the field of Materials Science, who were elected to the list of "World Top 100 Scientists in Materials Science" based on the same criterion at the same time, among whom alumini of USTC hold absolutely large proportion. Amazingly, within the world top 5 scientists on materials, there were 4 alumni of USTC as well, who were Yang Peidong, Yin Yadong, Xia Younan and Sun Yugang.

Alumni from USTC played a great role in the science world, which attracted worldwide attention. Among all those winners, the oldest scientist is even younger than 40 years old.

6 Alumni Elected World Top 100 Chemists, from left to right there are Xia Younan, Lin Wenbin, Yang Peidong, Duan Xiafeng, Sun Yugang, Yin Yadong They were ranked in accordance with the year of admission; 9212 alumni ranked as the Student ID)

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(USTC Initiative Foundation, School of Chemistry of USTC, News Center of USTC)