Samuel C. C. Ting

Samuel Chao Chung Ting (Chinese Characters :丁肇中; Pinyin: Ding Zhaozhong, Wade- Giles: Ting ¹ Chao ⁴ -chung ¹ ) ( born January 27, 1936 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American physicist.

Life

Ting's parents, professors later in Taipei, went after studying with Ting back to China. He was privately tutored by them and then went to school in Taipei. After the start of the study in Tainan he went to the University of Michigan, where in 1959 his bachelor's degree and in 1962 made ​​his doctorate. In 1963 he was at CERN. From 1965 he taught at Columbia University and was also at DESY. From 1969 he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ting received in 1976 along with Burton Richter the Nobel Prize in Physics for significant contributions to the discovery of the J / ψ meson. The group led by Ting discovered the particle in 1974 at Brookhaven National Laboratory, the same year the particle was discovered by the group of Burton Richter at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Later Ting worked at CERN in building the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer ( AMS), the (ISS ) is used on the International Space Station for spectroscopy of cosmic rays.

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Chinese and the Taiwanese Academy of Sciences. In 1976 he received the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award and the 1988 De Gaspari price. Since 1996, Ting is a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, which was appointed in 2008 to the National Academy of Sciences.

One of his doctoral supervisors, Martin L. Perl.

Ting was married twice. From his first marriage (1960 ) he has two daughters from his second marriage (1985), a son.

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