Samuel C. C. Ting

Samuel Chao Chung Ting (Chinese: 丁肇中; pinyin: Dīng Zhàozhōng, born January 27, 1936) is a Chinese-American physicist. With Burton Richter, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1976 for discovering the subatomic J/ψ particle.[1] He has been the principal investigator in research with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.

Ting was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He studied at the University of Michigan.

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  1. "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1976". nobelprize.org. Retrieved October 9, 2009.