Lee C. Teng

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

Teng studied at the Fu Jen University in Beijing (Bachelor degree 1946). From 1947 he was in the USA, where he received his doctorate in 1951 at the University of Chicago . There he developed a method for decoupling particle beams ( resonant beam extraction ) at the Fermi synchro- cyclotron , 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 from 1955 at the Argonne National Laboratory, where he became director of the accelerator department in 1961 and built the Zero Gradient Synchrotron (ZGS). From 1967 he was co-head (Associate Head) of the accelerator department of Fermilab (and head of the theoretical department for accelerators), which he remained until 1989. During the construction of the Tevatron in the early 1980s, he was briefly Associate Director of the accelerator department and later head of the Advanced Accelerator Project. From 1989 to 1997 he was head of the accelerator of the Advanced Photon Source at the Argonne National Laboratory. In 2004 he officially retired there (but remained Emeritus Senior Scientist).

Between 1983 and 1985 he was founding director of the Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC) in Taiwan.

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

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

Web links

2007 Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators Recipient - Wilson Prize for Teng at the American Physical Society (English; with picture)
Lee Teng: a passion for the accelerator fast lane - biography in the CERN Courier by Diana Lin, October 19, 2007 (English with French summary; with pictures)

Individual evidence

↑ The ZGS was one of the last synchrotrons in high-energy physics with weak focus and achieved records for machines of this type in terms of energy
↑ The Taiwan Light Source went into operation in 1993
↑ Which he developed in the 1950s when developing a focusing system with magnetic quadrupole lenses for the linear accelerator for protons that is currently being built at the University of Minnesota. He then continued to develop the theory further.
↑ Laudation: "For invention of resonant extraction and transition crossing techniques critical to hadron synchrotrons and storage rings, for early and continued development of linear matrix theory of particle beams, and for leadership in the realization of a facility for radiation therapy with protons."

personal data
SURNAME	Teng, Lee C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Teng, Lee Chang-li (full name); 鄧昌黎 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Chinese-American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 5, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH	Peiping

[1] The ZGS was one of the last synchrotrons in high-energy physics with weak focus and achieved records for machines of this type in terms of energy

[2] The Taiwan Light Source went into operation in 1993

[3] Which he developed in the 1950s when developing a focusing system with magnetic quadrupole lenses for the linear accelerator for protons that is currently being built at the University of Minnesota. He then continued to develop the theory further.

[4] Laudation: "For invention of resonant extraction and transition crossing techniques critical to hadron synchrotrons and storage rings, for early and continued development of linear matrix theory of particle beams, and for leadership in the realization of a facility for radiation therapy with protons."