Famous Chinese Americans Science and Technology

	Who	What
	丁肇中 Samuel C.C. Ting b. 1936, Ann Arbor, MI	Physicist. He obtained his PhD from the University of Michigan. He did research at CERN and taught at Columbia University before moving to MIT. He was awarded the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics for his "pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind". Ting named the particle he discovered J (allegedly because the letter J resembles the Chinese character 丁, his surname).
	崔琦 Daniel C. Tsui b. 1939, Henan	Physicist. After obtaining his PhD from the University of Chicago, he worked for Bell Labs for fourteen years before taking a position at Princeton University. He won the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contribution to the "discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations".
	王安 An Wang b. 1920, Shanghai d. 1990	Computer technologist and inventor. Wang held 44 patents. His best known invention made possible the use of magnetic core memory used in earlier computers. He also founded Wang Laboratories, which initially built desktop calculators before becoming the leader of office automation systems prior to the introduction of the PC.
	吳健雄 Chien-Shiung Wu b. 1912, Shanghai d. 1997, New York	Physicist. After receiving her PhD in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley, she taught at Smith College and Princeton University. Early in WW II, she joined the famed Manhattan Project, where she helped develop the uranium enrichement process needed to build the first atomic bomb. After the war, he taught at Columbia University, she conducted experiments that confirmed a theory proposed by fellow physicists Chen-Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee. She was also the first woman president of the American Physics Society. Her awards include the National Medal of Science and was the first living scientist having an asteroid named after her.
	楊振寧 Chen-Ning Yang b. 1922, Anwhei	Physicist. He obtained his PhD from the University of Chicago. He taught at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. He won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics for his part in the "investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles". By winning the Nobel Prize, Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee, became role models for all science students in Taiwan.
	丘成桐 Shing-Tung Yau b. 1949, Guangdong	Mathematician. He obtained his PhD from UC Berkeley. He taught at several leading institutions including Stanford and Harvard. He was awarded the Fields Medal, mathematics highest honor, in 1983 for his many contributions including advances in partial differential equations, and algebraic geometry.

Who

What

丁肇中
Samuel C.C. Ting

b. 1936, Ann Arbor, MI

Physicist. He obtained his PhD from the University of Michigan. He did research at CERN and taught at Columbia University before moving to MIT. He was awarded the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics for his "pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind". Ting named the particle he discovered J (allegedly because the letter J resembles the Chinese character 丁, his surname).

崔琦
Daniel C. Tsui

b. 1939, Henan

Physicist. After obtaining his PhD from the University of Chicago, he worked for Bell Labs for fourteen years before taking a position at Princeton University. He won the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contribution to the "discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations".

王安
An Wang

b. 1920, Shanghai
d. 1990

Computer technologist and inventor. Wang held 44 patents. His best known invention made possible the use of magnetic core memory used in earlier computers. He also founded Wang Laboratories, which initially built desktop calculators before becoming the leader of office automation systems prior to the introduction of the PC.

吳健雄
Chien-Shiung Wu

b. 1912, Shanghai
d. 1997, New York

Physicist. After receiving her PhD in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley, she taught at Smith College and Princeton University. Early in WW II, she joined the famed Manhattan Project, where she helped develop the uranium enrichement process needed to build the first atomic bomb. After the war, he taught at Columbia University, she conducted experiments that confirmed a theory proposed by fellow physicists Chen-Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee. She was also the first woman president of the American Physics Society. Her awards include the National Medal of Science and was the first living scientist having an asteroid named after her.

楊振寧
Chen-Ning Yang

b. 1922, Anwhei

Physicist. He obtained his PhD from the University of Chicago. He taught at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. He won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics for his part in the "investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles". By winning the Nobel Prize, Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee, became role models for all science students in Taiwan.

丘成桐
Shing-Tung Yau

b. 1949, Guangdong

Mathematician. He obtained his PhD from UC Berkeley. He taught at several leading institutions including Stanford and Harvard. He was awarded the Fields Medal, mathematics highest honor, in 1983 for his many contributions including advances in partial differential equations, and algebraic geometry.