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This digital document, covering the life and work of Samuel C. C. Ting, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 1424 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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Chapters: Wang Ganchang, Tsung-Dao Lee, Chien-Shiung Wu, Chen Ning Yang, Xiao-Gang Wen, Samuel C. C. Ting, Shu Xingbei, Cao Chong, Hu Ning, Yang Fujia, Deng Jiaxian, Zhao Jiuzhang, Ta-You Wu, Du Qinghua, Li Zhijian, Tai Tsun Wu, Cheng Kaijia, Hu Jimin, Xu Liangying, Peng Huanwu, Xie Xide, Shiyi Chen, Guo Kexin, Rao Yutai, ni Weidou, Wang Zhuxi, Wu Youxun, Fang Lizhi, Zhang Jie, He Xiantu, Zhou Guangzhao, Kerson Huang, Cheng Chemin, Huang Kun, Chen Jiaer, Feng Duan, Chung-Yao Chao, Lee C. Teng, Qian Sanqiang, Li Aizhen, Quan-Sheng Shu, Zhou Peiyuan, Xie Shengwu, Jiang Mianheng, Ye Qisun, Zhu Guangya, Yu Min, Chao Tang, Gu Binglin, Cheuk-Yin Wong. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 147. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Wang Ganchang (Chinese: ; pinyin: Wáng Gànchng; Wade-Giles: Wang Kan-ch'ang) (May 28, 1907 - December 10, 1998) was a nuclear physicist from China. He was one of the initiators of China's researches in nuclear physics, cosmic rays and particle physics. Wang Ganchang figured among the top leaders, pioneers and scientists of the Chinese nuclear deterrent program. Member of the Chinese Academy of Science, and member of the Chinese Communist party. In 1930, Wang first proposed to use a cloud chamber to study a new type of high-energy rays induced by the bombardment of beryllium with particle, experiment conducted one year later by the English physicist James Chadwick, thus discovering a new type of particle, the neutron, allowing him to win the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics. Wang first proposed the use of beta-capture to detect the neutrino in 1941. Fifteen years later Frederick Reines and Clyde Cowan employed his suggestion and detected the neutrino in 1956 winning forty years later the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics. Wang also led a group to discover the anti-sigma minus hype...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=10942765 ... Read more

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Chapters: Shen Chun-Shan, Samuel C. C. Ting, Ta-You Wu, Wei-Tou Ni. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 23. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Shen Chun-shan (born August 29, 1932) is a retired academic in Taiwan, most noted for his position as the former head of National Tsing Hua University. He is known as one of the "four princes of Taiwan" along with Chen Li-an, Fredrick Chien, and Lien Chan, all of whose fathers attained prominence in politics prior to their sons' successes. Shen was born in Nanjing; his paternal family roots are in Yuyao, Zhejiang. His father Shen Chung-han was an agricultural expert. Shen's parents were both highly educated and had studied in the United States; his maternal grandfather also went to France as an exchange student. A propensity to strokes runs in his family; his maternal grandfather died of a stroke in his 30s while in France, and his mother died of the same cause when the young Shen himself was only 9. The young Shen followed his father to Taiwan a few years later in 1949. Shen's father rose to further political prominence in Taiwan, eventually becoming the chairman of the Council of Agriculture. Shen graduated from National Taiwan University's physics department in 1955. In 1957, he left Taiwan for the United States, to enroll in a doctoral program in physics from the University of Maryland, from which he graduated in 1961. His dissertation was entitled "Dispersion relation for the electron impact width and shift of an isolated line". He went on teach at Princeton University and Purdue University as well as taking up a position at NASA. Shen returned to Taiwan in 1973 to take up a post as the head of National Tsing Hua University's sciences faculty, at a salary only one-eighth that which he received in the United States, earning him praise as a "...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=8387578 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Lung Ying-Tai, Samuel C. C. Ting, Pai Hsien-Yung, Chung Laung Liu, Chu Ching-Wu, Wu Po-Hsiung, Cheng Nan-Jung, C. Y. Lee, Wang Chien-Shien, Tze-Chiang Chen, ou Chin-Der, Lin Hsin-I. Excerpt:C. Y. Lee (December 30, 1938 (1938-12-30) , traditional Chinese : ; pinyin : Li Zuyuan ; Wade-Giles : Li Ts yuán ) is a Chinese architect based in Taiwan, Republic of China , born in Guangdong , People's Republic of China . He received his bachelor's degree from National Cheng Kung University , (Tainan , Taiwan, R.O.C.) and his master's degree from Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey , U.S.A. ). He directed the design of Taipei 101 , the world's tallest skyscraper in that time, as of 2004. List of major designs Taipei 101 was the most famous design by C. Y. Lee. See also (online edition) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at This is a Chinese name ; the family name is Cheng . Cheng Nan-jung (simplified Chinese : ; traditional Chinese : ; pinyin : Zhèng Nánróng; Wade-Giles : Cheng Nan-jung; POJ : T Lâm-iông; from time to time an anglicized name is used: Nylon Deng; September 12, 1947 in Taipei April 7, 1989) was a Taiwanese publisher and pro-democracy activist . He was the founder of the Freedom Era Weekly . He is most known internationally for setting himself on fire to voice for Taiwanese independence . Background and career Cheng's father was an immigrant from Fuzhou , Fujian . His mother was from Keelung , Taiwan. Cheng was born in the year of the 228 Massacres. On his first job-seeking resume, Cheng Nan-jung was to write: "I was born the year of the 228 Incident, and this incident has tormented me throughout my life.... Only because we were protected by our neighbors were we mainlanders safe from the wave of retaliation from the Taiwanese." He wrote ... ... Read more