Lee C. Teng

Lee Chang -li Teng (Chinese邓昌黎; born September 5, 1926 in Peiping ) is a Chinese - American physicist who deals with particle accelerators.

Teng graduated from Fu Jen University in Beijing ( Bachelor 1946). From 1947 he was in the U.S., where he became in 1951 a PhD from the University of Chicago. There he developed the Synchro - cyclotron Fermi a coupling method for particle beams ( resonant beam extraction), which is still used today. In 1951, he was Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota, 1953 Associate Professor at Wichita State University and was in 1955 at Argonne National Laboratory, where he was director of the accelerator department in 1961 and then built the Zero Gradient Synchrotron ( ZGS ). From 1967 he was co-director (Associate Head ) of the Department of the Fermilab accelerator ( and head of the theoretical department for accelerator ), which he remained until 1989. During construction of the Tevatron in the early 1980s he was briefly an associate director of the accelerator department and later director of the Advanced Accelerator Project. 1989 to 1997 he was head of the accelerator, the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory. In 2004, he went there officially retired (but remained Emeritus Senior Scientist ).

In between, he was from 1983 to 1985 Founding Director of the Synchrotron Radiation Research Center ( NSRRC ) in Taiwan

In the late 1980s he developed at Fermilab an accelerator for radiotherapy with protons ( a weak focusing synchrotron with an energy up to 250 MeV ), which was built at Loma Linda Hospital in California and the first of its kind was.

2007 Robert R. Wilson Prize for the development of techniques for extraction and overcoming transitions of particle beams in hadron synchrotrons and storage rings, for his development of a matrix theory for particle beams and for leadership in the construction of a plant for radiotherapy with protons. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Academia Sinica in Taiwan.