Hoong‐Kun Fun

Scientific Achievements of Emeritus Professor Fun Hoong Kun, F.A.Sc. Emeritus Prof. Fun Hoong Kun, Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia, was born in Penang, Malaysia on 1946. He completed his B.Sc. (1stClass Honors) in Physics at University of Malaya in 1969 and proceeded to Purdue University for his graduate studies under the Fulbright Fellowship. He obtained his M.S. in 1971 and his Ph.D. in experimental Solid State Physics (Solid State Electron-Nuclear Double Resonance technique) in 1974. Upon return to Malaysia in September 1974, he has worked at Universiti Sains Malaysia until 30 August 2012 when he joined King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as a full professor at the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy. Prof. Fun has studied on his own in the field of X-ray crystallography while in service at Universiti Sains Malaysia. Emeritus Prof. Fun Hoong Kun is a self-taught X-ray crystallographer.