 He is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, won the Wolf Prize in Chemistry and the RSC Robert Robinson Award.and has published more than 700 papers and holds more than 100 patents.Wong  received his BS and MS in Biochemical Sciences from National Taiwan University in Taipei, followed by his PhD in Chemistry in 1982 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the direction of Professor George M. Whitesides to study the use of enzymes as catalysts in organic synthesis.