Age, Biography and Wiki
Lim Kok Ann was born on 27 January, 1920 in Singapore, is a Singaporean chess player and microbiologist. Discover Lim Kok Ann's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 83 years old?
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Microbiologist Chess organizer |
| Age |
83 years old |
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Aquarius |
| Born |
27 January 1920 |
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27 January |
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| Date of death |
2003 |
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| Nationality |
Singapore
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Lim Kok Ann Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Lim Kok Ann's Wife?
His wife is Rosie Seow Guat Kheng
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Rosie Seow Guat Kheng |
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Stella Kon and four others |
Lim Kok Ann Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Lim Kok Ann worth at the age of 83 years old? Lim Kok Ann’s income source is mostly from being a successful player. He is from Singapore. We have estimated Lim Kok Ann's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
| Salary in 2024 |
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| Net Worth in 2023 |
Pending |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
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Not Available |
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| Source of Income |
player |
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Timeline
Lim Kok Ann (27 January 1920 – 8 March 2003) was a Singaporean chess player and organizer, and a microbiologist specializing in enterovirus research.
Born 27 January 1920, Lim had been a student at Anglo-Chinese School and Raffles Institution in 1936 and in 1938 was a Queen's scholar.
Lim was married to Rosie Seow Guat Kheng (1922–1994), the daughter of Seow Poh Leng, a bank manager.
She was an actress and a teacher.
Lim was a Methodist, and had five children, among them the writer and playwright Stella Kon.
Lim founded the Singapore Chess Federation in 1949 which held its first national chess championship the same year.
As a microbiologist at the University of Malaya, Lim was the first to isolate the specific virus (Influenza A/Singapore/1/57) during the 1957–1958 influenza pandemic using chicken embryos in eggs.
In 1959, while working for the World Health Organization in Houston, Texas, he developed the Lim-Benyesh-Melnick (LBM) protocol for serotyping human enterovirus isolates.
By introducing various combinations of viruses in each egg (instead of testing for each one individually), scientists can more quickly isolate the specific virus using fewer trials, a procedure still in use decades later.
Lim won the event himself, and again in 1960 and 1968, and served as president of the federation for 18 years.
In August 1965, Lim was appointed as the dean of the medical faculty at the University of Singapore, and in the 1960s he promoted acceptance of the novel Sabin polio vaccine amidst public skepticism of the new treatment.
FIDE, the world chess federation, called Lim one of "the Fathers of Asian chess" for his work in promoting the game.
The Straits Times called him "the father of chess" in Singapore.
Lim co-founded Singapore's first multi-disciplinary arts centre, Centre 65, with Goh Poh Seng in 1965 to promote the arts.
Lim was the grandson of Lim Boon Keng, a doctor, educator, and philanthropist.
From 1982 to 1988, Lim was the secretary general of FIDE, creating and publishing the first FIDE handbook.
He is remembered for modernizing the fifty move rule in the computer age and creating the "Lim System" for tournament pairings.
He died of a heart attack on 8 March 2003.
