Speaker	Body and post
Samuel C. C. Ting View lecture	Nobel Laureate in Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Curriculum Vitae
Samuel C.C. Ting Early background Samuel C.C. Ting was born on 27 January 1936 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA., where his parents, Professor K.H. Ting and Professor Jeanne M.Wong Ting, were students at the University of Michigan. His family returned to China a few months later. Education Elementary and secondary education took place in China, during the 1936-1956 period. S.C.C. Ting excelled in mathematics, science and history. In 1956, he returned to the United States to attend the University of Michigan as an engineering student, but he soon transferred his major to physics. Higher Education 1959: awarded BSE (in physics) and BSE (in mathematics) from the University of Michigan 1962: awarded Ph.D. (in physics) from the University of Michigan. Academic and Research Position In 1963, S.C.C. Ting was granted a Ford Foundation Fellowship to work at the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland. He returned to the United States in 1964 to become an instructor at Columbia University in New York. In 1966, he became the leader of an experimental group at the Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron in Hamburg, Germany. In 1969, he was appointed Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts and in 1977 he was selected as the first recipient of the Thomas Dudley Cabot Institute Professorship at MIT. Major Awards Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1975 Member of Academia Sinica, Republic of China in 1975 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award by the U.S. Government in 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded in 1976 Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1977 Thomas Dudley Cabot Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977 The Eringen Medal awarded by the Society of Engineering Science in 1977 Foreign Member of the Pakistani Academy of Sciences in 1984 DeGasperi Award in Science, by the Government of Italy in 1988 Golden Leopard Award for Excellence, by the town of Taormina, Italy, in 1988 Gold Medal for Science by the city of Brescia, Italy, 1988 Foreign Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1989 Foreign Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1993 Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1994 Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1995 Member Deutsche Akademie Der Naturforscher Leopoldina in 1996 Doctor Honoris Causa University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, U.S.A., 1978 Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1987 University of Jiatong, Shanghai, China in 1987 (Honorary Professorship) University of Bologna, Italy, 1988 Columbia University, New York, U.S.A., 1990 University of Science and Technology, China, 1990 Moscow State University, Moscow, 1991 University of Bucharest, Romania, 1993 Contribution to Physies Samuel Ting's research has centered on experimental particle physics, quantum electrodynamics, and the interaction of photons with matter. His most important work includes: 1. Discovery of the anti-deuteron. 2. A twenty-year series of experiments testing the validity of quantum electrodynamics and showing that electrons, muons, and tau mesons are pointlike particles with a radius smaller than 10-17 cm. 3. Precision studies of leptonic decays of vector mesons, measuring the branching ratio and the production phase of these photon-like particles and providing an important check of the validity of the quark model. 4. A study of photoproduction of vector mesons demonstrating the similarity between photons and vector mesons. 5. Discovery of the J particle. 6. A systematic study of muon pair production at the CERN Intersecting Storage Ring to investigase the scaling behaviour and production mechanisms of heavy photons. 7. Discovery of gluon jets. 8. A systematic study of gluon physics at the Electron-Positron colliding beam accelerator PETRA. 9. A precision measurement of muon charge asymmetry, demonstrating for the first time the validity of the Standard electroweak Model. 10. Determination of the number of neutrino species and the precision measurement of the ZO decay parameters at LEP, the 100 GeV e+e- collider beam accelerator Samuel C.C. Ting 1936 Born, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 1936-1956 Early education in China. Returned to the United States in 1956 to attend the University of Michigan. 1959 BSE (physics and mathematics), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1962 Ph.D. in physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1963 Ford Fellow at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland 1965 Instructor, Columbia University, New York 1966 Group Leader, Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg 1969 Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 1970 Associate Editor, Nuclear Physics B. 1975 Fellow, American Academy of A-r-ts and Sciences 1975 Foreign Member, Academia Sinica (Republic of China) 1976 Recipient of Emest Orlando Lawrence Award from the U.S. Government 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics 1977 Member of the Editorial Board, Nuclear Instruments and Methods 1977 Member, National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. 1977 Thomas Dudley Cabot Institute Professor, M.I.T., Cambridge 1977 Eringen Medal, Society of Engineering Science 1978 Sc.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1980 Member of the Editorial Board, Mathematical Modeling 1984 Foreign Member, Pakistani Academy of Sciences 1987 Ph.D. (Honorary) Chinese University of Hong Kong 1987 Honorary Professorship, Jiatong University, Shanghai, China 1988 DeGasperi Award in Science, by the Government of Italy 1988 Golden Leopard Award for Excellence, Taormina, Italy 1988 Gold Medal for Science, Brescia, Italy 1988 Ph.D. (Honorary) University of Bologna, Italy 1989 Foreign Member, Soviet Academy of Sciences 1990 Ph.D. (Honorary) Columbia University, New York, USA 1991 Francis G. Slack Lecture in Physics, Vanderbillt University 1991 Dean S. Edmonds Sr. Memorial Lecture, Boston University 1991 Ph.D. (Honorary) State University of Moscow, USSR 1993 Ph.D. (Honorary) University of Bucharest, Romania 1993 Foreign Member, Hungarian Academy of Sciences 1994 Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences 1994 Honorary Professorship, Shantong University, Shantong, China 1995 Foreign Member, Russian Academy of Sciences 1996 Member Deutsche Akademie Der Naturforscher Leopoldina, Halle, Germany