Raymond Yong
Raymond Yong, CQ FRSC (born April 10, 1929 in Singapore) is a retired Canadian environmental engineer. His father, Yong Ngim Djin, was principal of Anglo-Chinese School, and he first studied in the United States at Washington & Jefferson College due to his godfather, who was a Methodist missionary. He started in medicine, but switched to physics. He became an important instructor at McGill University. He is also an authority on contaminated soil and has 60 patents.[1][2] In 1985 he won the Izaak-Walton-Killam Award.[1]
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- ^ a b "Raymond N. Yong: Environmental Engineering - World's authority on contaminated soils and their mitigation". www.science.ca. 9 August 2006. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Basu, Saikat K.; Asif, Muhammad (13 January 2014). "Review of Environmental Soil Properties and Behaviour". Journal of Agricultural & Food Information. 15 (1): 74–74. doi:10.1080/10496505.2014.863128. ISSN 1049-6505.
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- Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
- Knights of the National Order of Quebec
- Fellows of the Engineering Institute of Canada
- McGill University faculty
- 1929 births
- Washington & Jefferson College alumni
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