In July, a travel-weary Mao Ho-kwang came from the US to attend the 27th Biennial Convocation of Members at the Academia Sinica. At the conference he made a presentation entitled "A New World of Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Earth Sciences, and Materials Science as Viewed through the Window of Diamonds."
7 月上旬，毛河光風塵僕僕地由美國返台參加中研院第 27 屆院士會議，會中他以「透過鑽石窗，看物理、化學、生物、地學及材料科學的新世界」為題，發表演說。