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LEROY L. CHANG
LEROY L. CHANG
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For the next 30 years he worked as a research physicist at the IBM Research Laboratory at Yorktown Heights. At IBM he worked closely with Leo Esaki, leading to Esaki's Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Ivar Giaever and Brian David Josephson for their invention of the tunnel diode.
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From 1976 to 1992 Leroy was a research manager for the molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and quantum structures sections, a period when the IBM Yorktown Heights lab was an international leader in semiconductor electronics research.
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He moved to Hong Kong in 1993, at the age of 57, to help establish a suitable academic infrastructure for HKUST in preparation for Hong Kong's transition from a British colony to Chinese control, a change that he approached with high optimism and altruism, and he was influential in attracting many important scientists to Hong Kong to work with him in this endeavor. In addition, he played a pivotal role in guiding and mentoring young PhD and postdoctoral scholars in both mainland China and Taiwan, introducing them to the academic and indus trial worlds in the United States and Europe, which reflected his ability to operate equally well in vastly different cultural contexts.
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