Honorary Presidents in the US

Elias Corey, 1990 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, a world top scientist of chemistry, known as the Father of Synthetic Organic Chemistry. Dr. Corey is a Sheldon Emery Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University. Prof. Corey has created about 100 synthetic version of key natural compounds. There is not a pharmaceutical lab in the world that has not used discoveries in his lab. Prof. Corey has won so many awards that an article in British journal Chemistry called him a "20th century folk hero," an "inspiringly modest man" who has built "an understanding of fundamental chemistry that will lead to tomorrow's medicine." In addition to research and teaching, he also helps some large business companies by servicing as their scientific advisor.

Samuel Chao Chung Ting, an internationally prominent scientist of physics, winner of 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics, is a member of US National Academy of Sciences, member of American Academy of Arts & Sciences, professor at MIT. Dr. Ting is also a member of several foreign academies, including Soviet/Russian Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, etc. In addition to Nobel Prize, Prof. Ting receives many other grand awards from the US, China, Italy, and other countries.

Sidney Altman, 1989 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, a world top scientist of biology and chemistry. Dr. Altman is a Sterling Professor of Biology and Professor of Chemistry at Yale University. He is a member of UNESCO International Committee on Bioethics. Prof. Altman was Chairman of Biology and Dean of Yale College. His major contribution to science is the discovery of catalytic RNA, for which he won the Nobel Prize.

Shiing Shen Chern, an internationally prominent mathematician, greatest geometrician in the 20^th century, had been a professor and director of Mathematics Institute of the University of California at Berkeley. He now is director of Mathematics Institute of Nankai University in China. Dr. Chern is a fellow of British Loyal Society, member of French Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and other academies. Prof. Chern has won Wolf Prize (the highest prize in mathematics), US national Medal of Science, and lots of other grand awards.

 Dr. Howard Alper is a world top scientist of chemistry, an outstanding national leader of science and technology of Canada. He is President, of the Royal Society of Canada; President, Canadian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He is also a Professor of Chemistry and Vice Rector/ President, Research, at the University of Ottawa.

The basic research which Prof. Alper has been pursuing spans organic and inorganic chemistry, with potential applications in the pharmaceutical, petrochemical, and commodity chemical sectors of industry. He has discovered new reactions using homogeneous, phase transfer, and heterogeneous catalysis (e.g. clays, dendrimers). He has published 445 papers, has forty-five patents, and has edited several books.

Alper has received a number of prestigious honors and awards, including the Alcan Award for Inorganic Chemistry (1986), Bader Award for Organic Chemistry (1990), Steacie Award for Chemistry (1993), all of the Canadian Society for Chemistry. The Chemical Institute of Canada has presented Alper with the Catalysis Award (1984) and the CIC Medal (1997), its highest honor. He also received the Urgel-Archambault Prize (ACFAS) in physical sciences and engineering. In 2000, he received the first Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal in Science and Engineering. In July 2002 France president Jacques Chirac has decided to present Prof. Alper the title of Officer, National Order of Merit, Republic of France.

He has served on a number of NSERC committees (e.g. Committee on Research Grants), and as Chair of the Partnership Group for Science and Engineering. He chairs the Steacie Prize committee (NRC), the Research Management Board of the Ottawa Center for Research and Innovation (OCRI), and is a member or chair of several corporate boards. He represents Canada on the NATO Science Committee. Alper was appointed as a Titular Member of the European Academy of Arts, Sciences, and Humanities (1996), and as an Officer of the Order of Canada (1999).