Ting, Samuel Chao Chung

Ting, Samuel Chao Chung (1936–  ) physicist; born in Ann Arbor, Mich. He was raised in China and Taiwan, coming to the U.S.A. to study at the University of Michigan (1956–62). He performed nuclear research in Geneva (1963–64), then taught at Columbia University (1964–69). While on leave from Columbia, he went to Hamburg, where he began his pioneering studies of subatomic particles. Returning to the U.S.A., he joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1967), where, in 1974, he discovered the long-lived particle, "J," later proved identical to independent discoverer Burton Richter's psi particle. Ting and Richter shared the 1976 Nobel Prize in physics for their codiscovery of the particle they agreed to term "J/psi."