Samuel Chao Chung Ting

Samuel CC Ting (2011)

Samuel Chao Chung Ting ( Chinese characters : 丁肇中; Pinyin : Dīng Zhàozhōng; Wade-Giles : Ting¹ Chao⁴-chung¹) (born January 27, 1936 in Ann Arbor , Michigan ) is an American physicist .

Life

Ting's parents, later professors in Taipei , went back to China with Ting after graduating. He was privately tutored by them and then went to school in Taipei. After studying in Tainan , he went to the University of Michigan , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1959 and his doctorate in 1962 . In 1963 he was at CERN . From 1965 he taught at Columbia University and during this time also worked at the German Electron Synchrotron (DESY). From 1969 he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .

In 1976 Ting and Burton Richter received the Nobel Prize in Physics for essential contributions to the discovery of the J / ψ meson . The group around Ting discovered the particle in 1974 at Brookhaven National Laboratory , in the same year the particle was discovered by the group around Burton Richter at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center . From 1976 he headed the Mark J collaboration at DESY ( PETRA storage ring ), one of the experiments in which the gluon was detected as a three-jet event in 1979 . He also coordinated the L3 experiment at the Large Electron-Positron Collider (in operation from 1989), which was used to study many aspects of the Standard Model in more detail. Ting later worked at CERN on setting up the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), which is used on the International Space Station (ISS) for spectroscopy of cosmic rays.

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences , the Chinese and Taiwanese Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1975 , the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1988 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 2012 . In 1976 he received the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award and in 1988 the De Gaspari Prize. Ting has been a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 1996 , which was named the National Academy of Sciences in 2008. In 2004 he received an honorary doctorate from RWTH Aachen University .

One of his doctoral supervisors was Martin L. Perl .

Ting was married twice. He has two daughters from his first marriage (1960) and a son from his second marriage (1985).

Web links

Commons : Samuel Chao Chung Ting  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Information from the Nobel Foundation on the 1976 award ceremony for Samuel Chao Chung Ting (English)
• SCC Ting. In: Physics History Network. American Institute of Physics

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Aubert, Ting et al. a .: Experimental Observation of a Heavy Particle J. In: Physical Review Letters. Volume 33, 1974, pp. 1404-1406
2. ↑ http://l3.web.cern.ch/l3/ website of the L3 experiment, accessed on May 15, 2019
3. ↑ Member entry of Samuel Chao Chung Ting (with CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 22, 2016.
4. ^ Nobelprize.org: Samuel CC Ting - Biographical