Background
He completed his primary and secondary education at Munsang College, where his father was the founding principal.
黃麗松
He completed his primary and secondary education at Munsang College, where his father was the founding principal.
He later attended Saint John"s University in Shanghai in 1937, but his studies were interrupted by the Japanese invasion.
He was the first Chinese Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong, a position in which he served from 1972 until 1986. Huang"s family came from Shantou, Guangdong. After 1938 he continued his studies as a scholarship student at the University of Hong Kong.
In Hong Kong Huang majored in chemistry at Saint John"s Hall (now called Street John"s College).
Following the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong in 1941, Huang briefly worked with British auxiliary forces and was responsible for detecting chemical weapons. In 1942 his studies at the University were interrupted when the school was forced to close.
Huang returned to China in 1942 and arrived in Guangxi. He received at doctorate in chemistry and subsequently pursued his post-doctoral research at the University of Chicago.
In 1951, Huang taught chemistry at the University of Malaya in Singapore (now National University of Singapore) and later he was transferred to University of Malaya"s Kuala Lumpur campus.
He became a tenured professor of chemistry and then acting Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the Faculty of Science. In 1969 Huang was appointed as Vice-Chancellor at Nanyang University in Singapore. In 1972 Huang became the first Chinese Vice-Chancellor of University of Hong Kong and quelled a student demonstration during a royal visit to Hong Kong.
By 1999 the Huang"s returned to Hong Kong.
To commemorate his wife"s life, Rayson Huang established the Grace Wei Huang Memorial Fund. and authored a memoir, A Lifetime in Academia: An autobiography by Rayson Huang, the proceeds from which will be set aside for the fund. Huang had a wide range of hobbies, one of the most special having been the study of violin making.
He returned to Hong Kong on a regular basis. Huang also established the Progress of Hong Kong"s Rayson Huang and the "Rayson Huang Foundation." in Malaysia.
By 1945 Huang had followed other members of the University of Hong Kong chemistry department to Britain and received a scholarship to study at the Oxford University"s Institute of Chemistry. In addition, he served in various capacities including becoming a member of the Hong Kong Basic Law Drafting Committee in drafting Hong Kong"s post handover constitution.
Married Grace Wei Li in 1949.