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Samuel Chao Chung Ting ( Chinese: 丁肇中; pinyin: Dīng Zhàozhōng, born January 27, 1936) is an American physicist who, with Burton Richter, received the Nobel Prize in 1976 for discovering the subatomic J/ψ particle.
Institute Professor. Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of Physics. 1976 Nobel Laureate. Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics in 1976, which he shared with Burton Richter, for the discovery of the J/ψ meson nuclear particle. Research Areas. Particle Physics Experiment. (617) 253-5065. sccting@mit.edu. Office: 26-306A.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1976 was awarded jointly to Burton Richter and Samuel Chao Chung Ting "for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind"
Samuel C.C. Ting is an American physicist who shared in the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1976 for his discovery of a new subatomic particle, the J/psi particle. The son of a Chinese college professor who was studying in the United States when Ting was born, he was raised in mainland China and Taiwan.
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As part of the MIT150 Infinite History, we're talking with professor Samuel Ting. Professor Ting is the Thomas Dudley Cabot professor of physics at MIT. He holds BAs in both math and physics from the University of Michigan, as well as a PhD in physics from the University of Michigan.
Samuel Chao Chung Ting. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1976. Born: 27 January 1936, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA. Prize motivation: “for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind” Prize share: 1/2. Work.
Prof. Dr. Samuel C. C. Ting > CV Samuel Ting was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan on January 27, 1936 while his parents, both academics, were visiting the University of Michigan from China. The family returned to China but, due to the Japanese invasion and subsequent outbreak of World War II, Samuel had no formal education until he was 12.
