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Samuel C. C. Ting
Chao Chung Ting, also known by his English name Samuel, is a Taiwanese-American particle 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 Institute Chair at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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Born 27 January 1936 · Q192715
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012).
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2011· 1 entry
And was installed on the International Space Station on May 19, 2011
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1995· 1 entry
Not long after the cancellation of the Superconducting Super Collider project had severely reduced the possibilities for experimental high-energy physics on Earth, Ting proposed the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a space-b
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Science and Technology of China (1992).
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1977· 1 entry
Won Eringen Medal (1977).
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1976· 5 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1976).
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Ting was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, which he shared with Burton Richter of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, for the discovery of the J/ψ meson nuclear particle
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With Burton Richter for discovering the subatomic J/ψ particle
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Nobel Prize in Physics in 1976, Eringen Medal in 1977, DeGaspari Award in Science from the Government of Italy in 1988, Gold Medal for Science from Brescia, Italy in 1988, and the NASA Public Service Medal in 2001
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award (1975).
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1974· 1 entry
When Ting was heading a research team at MIT exploring new regimes of high energy particle physics
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1963· 1 entry
Ting worked at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
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1960· 1 entry
Ting married Kay Louise Kuhne, an architect, and together they had two daughters: Jeanne Ting Chowning and Amy Ting
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1956· 1 entry
Ting, who barely spoke English, returned to the United States at the age of 20 and won a scholarship to attend the University of Michigan, where a family friend, G
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1936· 2 entries
Born 1936-01-27.
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At the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to first generation immigrant parents from Ju County, Shandong, China
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