Honorary Dean of Chien-Shiung Wu College

Professor Samuel C.C. Ting

Samuel C. C. Ting's Meeting with Students of Chien-Shiung Wu College

Professor Samuel C.C. Ting was born on January 27, 1936, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, with his ancestral roots in Rizhao, Shandong Province. He received  his B.S.E.degrees in physics and mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1959, followed by anM.S. degree in 1961 and a Ph.D. degree in physics in 1962. Since 1969, he has served as a Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and in 1977, he was appointed as the first Thomas Dudley Cabot Institute Professor of Physics at MIT. Since 1982, he has led the L3 experiment at the Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP) at CERN. Professor Ting is the recipient of numerous prestigious honors, including the Nobel Prize in Physics (1976), the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Awardfrom the US government (1976), the A.C. Eringen Medal ofthe Society of Engineering Science(1977), and the DeGasperi Award in Science from the Italian government (1988). He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1977), a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1975), a foreign member of the Academy of Sciencesof the USSR (now Russian Academy of Sciences) and the Pakistan Academy of Sciences, and a member of Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

As a world-renowned physicist, Professor Ting was awarded the Nobel Prize for his pioneering discovery of the J/ψparticle. In recent years, he has gained international acclaim for leading the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) experiment to explore antimatter. His research on dark matter, a critical hypothesis in modern cosmology, aims to resolve inconsistencies within the Big Bang theory and continues to draw global attention. Professor Ting maintains close ties with Southeast University (SEU). He has visited the university and delivered numerous lectures, and was appointed Honorary Professor of SEU and Honorary Dean of Chien-Shiung Wu College.