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Victoria Chan-Palay was born on 9 October, 1945 in Singapore, is a Neuroscientist. Discover Victoria Chan-Palay's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 78 years old?

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Age 78 years old
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Born 9 October 1945
Birthday 9 October
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Nationality Singapore

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1945

Victoria Lye-Hua Chan-Palay (born 9 October 1945) is a Singaporean-born neuroscientist who has worked in the United States and Switzerland.

Chan is the second daughter of noted Singaporean swimming coach Dr. Chan Ah Kow.

1960

Among her four brothers and two sisters is Patricia Chan, who represented Singapore in swimming at the Southeast Asian Games in the 1960s and 1970s.

As a young woman, Chan excelled at school in science, and herself represented Singapore in international swimming competitions as well.

1962

She left Singapore in 1962 with a scholarship to Smith College, from which she graduated in 1965.

1969

She then went on to the Tufts University School of Medicine for a Ph.D., which she completed in 1969.

1970

While living in the Greater Boston area, she met Sanford Palay, and married him in 1970.

Chan-Palay did seminal research in neuroscience with her husband in the 1970s.

She would go on to found the journal Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders.

1975

She graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1975 as the first woman to receive an M.D. summa cum laude.

Chan-Palay had two daughters Vicky and Rebecca, the latter with her husband Sanford Palay.

However, their marriage ended in divorce.

1979

She was named a White House Fellow and an assistant to Secretary of Defense Harold Brown in 1979, making her one of the first Singaporeans to achieve such a high rank in the United States government.

1989

She later moved to Switzerland, where she served as part of the faculty of University of Zurich Medical School from 1989.

She was awarded the Humboldt Prize in Medical Research by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

2012

She relinquished her United States citizenship in 2012.