The Nobel Prize in Physics 1976
Awarded on: 1976-10-18
"for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind"
Affiliations:
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Cambridge, MA, USA
Samuel Chao Chung Ting
Born: 1936-01-27 in Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Gender: male
Field: Nobel prize winning physicist
Biography
Samuel Chao Chung Ting is a Taiwanese-American physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1976 with Burton Richter for discovering the subatomic J/ψ particle. He is the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).