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Biography of Samuel Chao Chung TingName: Samuel Chao Chung TingBirth Date: January 27, 1936 Death Date: N/A Place of Birth: Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States Nationality: American Gender: Male Occupations: nuclear physicist, educator Samuel Chao Chung Ting Nuclear physicist Samuel C. C. Ting (born 1936) shared the 1976 Nobel Prize for physics with Burton Richter for discovering the existence of a new particle called j/psi.Samuel Chao Chung Ting's study of the physics of electron-positron pairs produced during a nuclear reaction led to the discovery of a new particle. This particle, j/psi, supplied nuclear theorists with the key to a suspected fourth quark and opened research into a fourth type of subatomic particle whose existence had until then been speculative. Ting's work during the latter decades of the twentieth century found him involved in what was dubbed "Big Science," experimentation requiring financing by top-notch teams of scientists, expensive state-of-the art equipment, governing boards, and an international approach. Ting was especially suited for work in such a high-pressure environment. An Economist contributor noted in profiling the American physicist that he "is determined to get authoritative results, and demands …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…Academy of Science, the Deutsche Academie Naturforscher Leopoldina, and the National Academy of Sciences. Ting also belongs to physical societies in both the United States and Europe.In April 1985 Ting married his second wife, educator Susan Carol Marks, with whom he had a son, Christopher. A soft-spoken yet authoritarian person with well-known ambition, Ting was as meticulous in his experimentation and analysis as in his dress. Noted for his uniform of a dark suit and tie, he retained the same drive to uncover new facets of the physical world as he did as a young student on his way to America in pursuit of knowledge. Further Reading Notable Asian Americans, Gale, 1995.Notable Scientists: From 1900 to the Present, Gale, 2001.Discover, April 1996.Economist, May 25, 1991.Omni, July 1981.Science, April 8, 1988; December 21, 1990; January 4, 1991; November 27, 1992.Smithsonian, March 1989.Washington Post, December 30, 2000."Samuel C. C. Ting--Autobiography," Nobel e-Museum, http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1976/ting-autobio.html (August 8, 2002). |