Tung-Mow Yan
Tung-Mow Yan is a Taiwanese physicist who has specialized in theoretical particle physics, primarily in the structure of elementary particles, the Standard Model, and quantum chromodynamics. He is a professor emeritus at Cornell University.
Education
Yan graduated from National Taiwan University with a B.S. in physics in 1960 and earned an M.S. in physics from National Tsing Hua University in 1962. He then completed doctoral studies in the United States, earning his Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University in 1968 under theoretical physicist Julian Schwinger.Research
From 1970 to 2009 Yan worked at Cornell University, in particular the Cornell High-Energy Synchrotron Source and Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics. He became a professor and in 2010 he reached the status of professor emeritus in physics.Other affiliations during Yan's life and work are:
- 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
- 1991–1992: special chair professor,, ROC
- 1997: Director,, ROC
In the same decade, he pioneered the Cornell potential, shedding light on the properties of heavy quark–antiquark systems, with Estia J. Eichten, Toichiro Kinoshita, Ken Lane and Kurt Gottfried.
Works
Tung-Mow Yan is the author or co-author of the following books:and numerous physics publications 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.