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]

References

1. "Raymond N. Yong: Environmental Engineering - World's authority on contaminated soils and their mitigation". www.science.ca. 9 August 2006. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
2. Basu, Saikat K.; Asif, Muhammad (13 January 2014). "Review of Environmental Soil Properties and Behaviour". Journal of Agricultural & Food Information. 15 (1): 74. doi:10.1080/10496505.2014.863128. ISSN 1049-6505.