Biography Of Samuel C. C. Ting
Real Name
Samuel C. C. Ting
Profession
Physicists
Nick Name
Samuel Chao Chung Ting
Famous as
Physicist
Nationality
American
Personal Life of Samuel C. C. Ting
Born on
07 January 1936
Birthday
7th January
Age
81 Years
Sun Sign
Capricorn
Born in
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Family Background of Samuel C. C. Ting
Father
Kuan-hai Ting
Mother
Tsun-ying Jeanne Wang
Spouses/Partners
Kay Kuhne, Susan Carol Marks
Children
Jeanne Ting Chowning, Amy Ting, Christopher
Education
University of Michigan
Awards
Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award (1975) Nobel Prize for Physics (1976) Eringen Medal (1977) De Gasperi Award (1988)
Personal Fact of Samuel C. C. Ting
Samuel Chao Chung Ting is an American physicist of Chinese ethnicity who won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of J particle. His parents, who were university professors in China, had come to the U.S. on a visit, intending to return home before his birth. But he was born premature and thus became an American citizen by accident. Soon after that, the Tings went back to China, where they stayed until he was twelve and then shifted to Taiwan.
When Ting turned twenty, he moved to the U.S with $100 in hand and little or no knowledge of English. Here he managed to enroll at University of Michigan on full scholarship. After receiving his PhD, he began his career as a Ford Foundation Fellow at CERN in Geneva and then taught for few years at Columbia University.
His work, which earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics, was started at DESY, Hamburg, but was concluded at Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York City. Concurrently, he worked as a professor at MIT. Mounting of Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station is another feather in his cap; the project was completed entirely under his direction.
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