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Federation of Hong Kong, the Shanghai-Hong Kong Council for the Promotion and Development of Yangtze, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Fudan University, Hua Qiao University, Zhongguancun Science Park (Advisory Committee), Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology (Pakistan), World Scientific Publishing Company (Singapore), and
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He has served on Hong Kong Government's Industry and Technology Development Council and the Board of Overseers for the Institutes of Biotechnology, and was appointed by the Municipal Government of Shenzhen as Senior Advisor. He served on governing and advisory boards of the Business and Professionals
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for HKSAR. He was appointed in 1998 to the Commission on Strategic Development of HKSAR and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. In 2000, he was appointed to the Council of Advisors on Innovation and Technology of HKSAR, and as Chairman of the Committee on Hong Kong – Mainland
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by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). In 2001, he was awarded "Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur" by the President of the Republic of France.
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In 1995, he received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Georgetown College, and was named an Honorary Citizen by the Municipal Government of
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He was National President of the National Association of Chinese-Americans during 1984–86. He was the US China Olympics Liaison for the
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of London. Woo retired in 2001 after 13 years of service and remains President Emeritus as well as University Professor Emeritus.
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Woo has received many honours and awards for professional achievement and civic contribution, including Fellowships of the
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programs have been consistently ranked as Asia's top programs, and in the World Top 50 MBA programs by the
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Since 1964, Woo has published 120 papers and books in various fields of physics, particularly in quantum
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Humanitarian Award by the United Nations Association; the Golden Key of the City of San Francisco;
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in Hong Kong and went to the US in 1955, where he acquired his BS degree in Physics/Mathematics at
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Technological Collaboration. He has spoken multiple times at the World Economic Forum in
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and an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Washington University; and was appointed a
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Members of the Preparatory Committee for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
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From 1993–96, he was appointed by the Chinese government, first as a
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Born in Shanghai in 1937, he received his secondary education from
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List of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology people
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Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
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work). In 1983, at the age of 45, he became president of
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Theory of the normal ground state of liquid helium three
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