# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vivian-wing-wah-yam
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:13:33.685Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vivian-wing-wah-yam"
name: "Vivian Wing-Wah Yam"
slug: "vivian-wing-wah-yam"
description: "Professor Vivian Yam Wing-wah CSci, CChem, FRSC, is a Hong Kong chemist. Yam is the youngest female member ever to be elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences. She was a 2011 L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science laureate \"for her work on light-emitting materials and innovative ways of capturing solar energy.\""
tagline: "Hong Kong chemist"
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country:
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birthDate: "1963-02-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump