Samuel C. C. Ting
| Samuel Chao Chung Ting 丁肇中 |
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Samuel Ting after a presentation at the Kennedy Space Center in October 2010
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| Born |
January 27, 1936 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States |
| Citizenship |
 United States
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| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions |
CERN Columbia University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan |
| Doctoral advisor | L.W. Jones, M.L. Perl |
| Known for | Discovery of the J/ψ particle |
| Notable awards |
Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award (1975) Nobel Prize for Physics (1976) Eringen Medal (1977) De Gasperi Award (1988), |
| Spouse | Kay Kuhne, Susan Carol Marks |
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Website Samuel Ting |
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Samuel Chao Chung Ting (Chinese: 丁肇中; pinyin: Dīng Zhàozhōng; Wade–Giles: Ting Chao-chung) (born January 27, 1936) is an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in 1976, with Burton Richter, for discovering the subatomic J/ψ particle. He is the principal investigator for the international $1.5 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment which was installed on the International Space Station on 19 May 2011.
Samuel Ting was born on January 27, 1936, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. His parents, Kuan-hai Ting (丁觀海) and Tsun-ying Jeanne Wang (王雋英), met and married as graduate students at the University of Michigan. His parents were from Rizhao County (日照縣), Shandong province, China.
Ting's parents returned to Rizhao two months after his birth. Due to the Japanese invasion, his education was disrupted, and he was mostly home-schooled by his parents. Because of the Chinese Civil War, his parents escaped to Taiwan and started to teach engineering in local academic institution. From 1948, Ting attended high school and Taiwan Provincial Engineering College (臺灣省立工學院）in Taiwan, but he soon dropped out of the college during his freshman year.
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