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H. J. Andrew Wang (王惠鈞)

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H. J. Andrew Wang (王惠鈞)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: H. J. Andrew Wang
  • Chinese: 王惠鈞
  • Era: 1945
  • Geography: 台灣嘉義朴子
  • Core roles: scientist, professor, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Education

  • 台灣大學 — B.S. 化學
  • 台灣大學 — M.S. 化學
  • 伊利諾大學 — 1947 — Ph.D. 化學

Employment

  • 麻省理工學院 — 1974-1988 — Research
  • 伊利諾大學生命科學院 — 1988-2000 — 生物物理教授
  • 中央研究院生物化學研究所 — 2000- — 所長

Role in the Community

  • SARS antiviral legacy (2003 project → 2020 COVID drug): while serving as 中研院前副院長, 王惠鈞 parsed the co-crystal structure of the SARS main protease with an inhibitor; this 17-year-old structural work became the stated foundation for the Academia Sinica team’s potent SARS-CoV-2 main-protease inhibitors (best inhibitor 10× stronger than known ones), alongside 翁啟惠, 方俊民’s synthesis team, and 梁博煌’s expression/purification-and-screening platform — 武漢肺炎：台灣中研院找到抑制病毒關鍵. His former PhD students (郭致榮、李政忠、謝俊結) carried this method into the COVID research.
  • TAH Who’s Who record: bibliographic profile #944 (2016-04-24) held in the story corpus — 04.
  • HOLD: existing Education row lists 伊利諾大學 Ph.D. dated 1947, which conflicts with the profile’s Era 1945 (a 2-year-old doctorate is implausible; year likely a table-extraction artifact). Not auto-corrected.
  • Re-verified 2026-09-20: corpus re-grep matches only the TAH #944 record, the 武漢肺炎 article record, and index listings — both already absorbed above. SKIP: nothing further absorbable.
  • Re-verified 2026-09-22 (slice 09211500-17): re-grep matches only the same two records + index — verified-saturated, SKIP.
  • Re-verified 2026-09-23 (slice 09221000-18): fresh ZH+EN grep matches only TAH #944, the 武漢肺炎 article record, and index listings — both already absorbed above; HOLD on the 1947 Ph.D.-date conflict stands — verified-saturated, SKIP.
  • Re-verified 2026-09-24 (slice 09230500-30): fresh ZH+EN grep matches only TAH #944, the 武漢肺炎 article record (SARS co-crystal structure + PhD students 郭致榮/李政忠/謝俊結 — already absorbed), and index — verified-saturated, SKIP; HOLD on the 1947 Ph.D.-date conflict stands.

Family

No filled family fields on the TAH profile.

Sources

  • |TAH Foundation

  • |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org

  • Re-verified 2026-09-25 (slice 09240500-21): fresh ZH+EN grep matches only TAH #944, the 武漢肺炎 article record, and index — verified-saturated, SKIP; HOLD on the 1947 Ph.D.-date conflict stands.

  • Re-verified 2026-09-25 (slice 09250800-20): fresh ZH+EN grep matches only TAH #944, the 武漢肺炎 article record, and index — verified-saturated, SKIP; HOLD on the 1947 Ph.D.-date conflict stands.

  • Re-verified 2026-09-27 (slice 09260600-5): fresh ZH+EN grep matches only [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whoswho944|TAH #944]], the 武漢肺炎 article record, and index — verified-saturated, SKIP; HOLD on the 1947 Ph.D.-date conflict stands.

  • Re-verified 2026-10-03 (slice 09270600-4): fresh ZH+EN grep (王惠鈞|Andrew Wang, works+articles) matches only [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whoswho944|TAH #944]], the 武漢肺炎 article record, and index — verified-saturated, SKIP; HOLD on the 1947 Ph.D.-date conflict stands. hits-hash=8d2d469d9550

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