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Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar
  he 2001 “Most Outstanding Junior College Science Student” Award went to Mok Yingting, selected by the Imperial College Alumni Association of Singapore and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Club of Singapore from among nineteen nominees.
As the annual sponsor of these gifted students, World Scientific’s Chairman, Dr K. K. Phua, joined Yingting for part of her trip to Sweden to attend the Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar (SIYSS).
During her stay, she visited the prestigious Karolinska Institute of Medicine, and attended the Nobel lectures at Stockholm University and the Swedish Academy. She also had the opportunity to rub shoulders with the Nobel laureates themselves at festivities attended by 1200 guests, including the Swedish Royalty.
We extend Yingting our warmest congratulations and wish her all the best in her future career in Science!
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Professor Kun Huang Wins Highest National Award
  orld Scientific extends its heartiest congratulations to its author Professor Kun Huang, for winning the 2001 State Pre-eminent Science and Technology prize, the highest national science and technology prize in China. Professor Huang, an honorary director of the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, is a well-known physicist who has made many important contributions to solid state physics. A volume of his works published by World Scientific in 2000, Selected Papers of Kun Huang with Commentary, contains some of his most influential works and serves as an instructive guide for physicists.
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  he publication of the final set of six volumes of Nobel Lectures – from 1996 to 2000 – marks the end of a memorable 20th century and the threshold of the next 100 years of Nobel Prizes.
In completing the entire collection of Nobel lectures books for the years 1901–2000 in Physics, Chemistr y, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and 1969–2000 in Economic Sciences, the event also celebrates one of World Scientific’s most prestigious endeavors.
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