Tung-Mow Yan | |
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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 |
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]
He 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]
From 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]
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]
Tung-Mow Yan is the author or co-author of the following books:
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]
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Tung-Mow Yan | |
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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 |
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]
He 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]
From 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]
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]
Tung-Mow Yan is the author or co-author of the following books:
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]
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cite journal}}
: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (
link)