Tung-Mow Yan (Chinese: 顏東茂; born 1937) is a Taiwanese-born American physicist, who has specialized in theoretical particle physics; primarily in the structure of elementary particles, the Standard Model, and quantum chromodynamics. He is professor emeritus at Cornell University.[1]
Tung-Mow Yan | |
|---|---|
顏東茂 | |
| Born | 1937 (age 86–87) |
| Alma mater | National Taiwan University (B.S.) National Tsing Hua University (M.S.) Harvard University (PhD) |
| Known for | Drell–Yan process Cornell potential |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Cornell University |
| Thesis | Selected Topics in Theory of Magnetic Charge and Phenomenological Theory of Particles (1968) |
| Doctoral advisor | Julian Schwinger |
Education
editHe graduated with a BS in physics in 1960 at National Taiwan University (NTU), an MS in physics at National Tsing Hua University (Hsinchu) in 1962, and earned a Ph.D. in physics in 1968 at Harvard University, under the supervision of Julian Schwinger.[2]
Research
editFrom 1970 to 2009 Yan worked at Cornell University, in particular the Cornell High-Energy Synchrotron Source and Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics (combined into the Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based Sciences and Education as of 2006). He became a professor[when?] and in 2010 he reached the status of professor emeritus in physics.
Other affiliations during Yan's life and work are:[3]
- 1968–1970: research associate at SLAC
- 1973–1974: visiting scientist to SLAC
- 1977–1978: scientific associate at CERN
- 1974–1978: Sloan Fellowship
- 1986: visiting chair professor at the physics department of NTU
- Since 1991: a fellow of the American Physical Society[4]
- 1991–1992: special chair professor, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, ROC
- 1997: Director, National Center of Theoretical Sciences, ROC
In the 1970s, Yan and Sidney Drell investigated the important Drell–Yan process of massive lepton pair production in hadronic collisions,[5] which provides a crucial experimental probe into the parton distribution functions. These describe the way that the momentum of an incoming high-energy nucleon is partitioned among its constituent partons.
In the same decade, he pioneered the Cornell potential, shedding light on the properties of heavy quark–antiquark systems (charmonium), with Estia J. Eichten, Toichiro Kinoshita, Ken Lane and Kurt Gottfried.[6][7][8]
Works
editTung-Mow Yan is the author or co-author of the following books:
- Tung-mow Yan (1986). QCD, Electro-weak Interaction and Their Grand Unifaction: Summer School in Particle Physics : Papers. Academia Sinica, Tiwan: Science Press.
- Tung-Mow Yan; Kurt Gottfried (2003). Quantum Mechanics: Fundamentals. Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics. Springer. ISBN 0-387-955-763.
and numerous physics publications[9] in collaboration with other theoretical physicists, including Kurt Gottfried and Sidney Drell.
According to INSPIRE-HEP, as of 2016, he has authored or co-authored at least 72 publications, and has at least 11945 citations.[10]
References
edit- ^ "Tung-Mow Yan's homepage at Cornell University". Retrieved 2017-01-20.
- ^ Climbing the Mountain: The Scientific Biography of Julian Schwinger. Oxford University Press. 2003. p. 601. ISBN 0-198-527-454.
- ^ "Cornell university Department of physics". Retrieved 2013-10-19.
- ^ "APS Fellow Archive (1990-present)". Retrieved 2013-10-19.
- ^ Drell, S.; Yan, T. M. (1970). "Massive Lepton-Pair Production in Hadron-Hadron Collisions at High Energies". Physical Review Letters. 25 (5): 316. Bibcode:1970PhRvL..25..316D. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.25.316. OSTI 1444835. S2CID 16827178.
- ^ E. Eichten; K. Gottfried; T. Kinoshita; J. Kogut; K. D. Lane & T.-M. Yan (1975). "Spectrum of Charmed Quark–Antiquark Bound States". Physical Review Letters. 34 (6): 369–372. Bibcode:1975PhRvL..34..369E. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.34.369.
- ^ E. Eichten; K. Gottfried; T. Kinoshita; K. D. Lane; T.-M. Yan (1978). "Charmonium: The Model". Physical Review D. 17 (11): 3090–3117. Bibcode:1978PhRvD..17.3090E. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.17.3090.
- ^ E. Eichten, K. Gottfried, T. Kinoshita, K. D. Lane and Tung-Mow Yan (1980). "Charmonium: Comparison With Experiment". Physical Review D. 21 (1): 203–233. Bibcode:1980PhRvD..21..203E. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.21.203.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ T-M Yan's publications available on the INSPIRE-HEP Literature Database
- ^ "YAN, Tung-Mow INSPIRE profile". 2013. Retrieved 2016-08-16.
External links
edit- "Vivo: Research and expertise across Cornell". Retrieved 2013-10-19.
- "ASIAA/CCMS/IAMS/LeCosPA/NTU-Phys Joint Colloquium". Autumn 2012 – Spring 2013. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-10-19.