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Samuel C. C. Ting

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Chao Chung Ting (Chinese: 丁肇中; pinyin: Dīng Zhàozhōng, born January 27, 1936), also known by his English name Samuel, is a Taiwanese-American physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1976 with Burton Richter for discovering the subatomic J/ψ particle. He is the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Samuel C. C. Ting is the 298th most popular physicist (up from 324th in 2019), the 1,501st most popular biography from United States (up from 1,641st in 2019) and the 68th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Samuel C. C. Ting ranks 298 out of 851. Before him are John Clauser, Anne L'Huillier, Harry Daghlian, Abdul Qadeer Khan, Zhores Alferov, and Carl von Linde. After him are Klaus Hasselmann, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Walter Kohn, Friedrich Hund, Henry Way Kendall, and Yuri Oganessian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Samuel C. C. Ting ranks 68. Before him are Eva Hesse, Denny Hulme, Steve Reich, Abdul Qadeer Khan, Jack Lousma, and Iolanda Balaș. After him are Petar Mladenov, Richard Wilson, Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud, Dražan Jerković, Raymond Poulidor, and Assia Djebar.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Samuel C. C. Ting ranks 1,501 out of 20,380. Before him are Sean Combs (1969), Ed Wood (1924), Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (1920), Sean Baker (1971), Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1944), and Arthur Penn (1922). After him are Elisha Otis (1811), Annie Jump Cannon (1863), Moe Tucker (1944), Kim Kardashian (1980), Chris Evert (1954), and Muddy Waters (1913).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Samuel C. C. Ting ranks 68. Before him are David Gross (1941), William Daniel Phillips (1948), Ash Carter (1954), Lawrence M. Krauss (1954), John Clauser (1942), and Harry Daghlian (1921). After him are Henry Way Kendall (1926), John Vincent Atanasoff (1903), Steven Chu (1948), Carl Wieman (1951), Robert B. Laughlin (1950), and John G. Trump (1907).

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