Vtg - Dr TSUNG - YING SHEN Commemorative COIN / METAL, By Cabral Antunes - VG

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Vtg - Dr TSUNG - YING SHEN Commemorative COIN / METAL, By Cabral Antunes - VG
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Overall approx. dimensions: 3.5" diameter
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Dr. Tsung Ying Shen, son of Tsu Way and Sienhua New Shen, was born in 1924 and received his BSc in chemical engineering from the National Central University in Chongqing.  Following a national exam, he won a scholarship for graduate work in England in 1947. He studied first at the Imperial College (London) and then the University of Manchester, from which he received his PhD in organic chemistry in 1950.  He received an honorary DSc degree from Manchester in 1978. After post-doctoral research at The Ohio State University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he joined Merck Research Laboratories in 1956. Dr. Shen is an accomplished medicinal chemist who invented indomethacin and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, in close collaboration with innovative pharmacologists.  He retired from Merck in 1986 as a vice president in research, to become the Alfred Burger Professor at the University of Virginia until 2001. Among his recognitions are the 1977 Rene Descartes Medal from the University of Paris, 1984 Achievement Award of the Chinese Institute of Engineers – U.S.A., and inaugural membership in 2007 in the American Chemical Society’s Medicinal Chemistry Hall of Fame.
Dr. Shen endowed this Memorial Award in 2007, in gratitude to his parents and in the hope of encouraging Chinese engineering graduate students to develop as leaders and innovators in their careers.