Raymond Yong, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Raymond Yong

Canadian environmental engineer

Date of Birth: 10-Apr-1929

Place of Birth: Singapore

Profession: scientist

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Raymond Yong, (born in Singapore on April 10, 1929) 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.
In 1985 he won the Izaak-Walton-Killam Award.