Tung-Mow Yan

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]

Education

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]

Research

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 in 19??. By 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]

Works

Tung-Mow Yan is the author or co-author of the following books:

  • Tung-mow Yan (1986). QCD, Electro-weak Interaction and Their Grand Unifaction: Summer School in Particle Physics : Papers. Academia Sinica, Tiwan: Science Press.
  • Tung-Mow Yan; Kurt Gottfried (2003). Quantum Mechanics: Fundamentals. Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics. Springer. ISBN 0-387-955-763.

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]

References
  1. "Tung-Mow Yan's homepage at Cornell University". Retrieved 2017-01-20.
  2. Climbing the Mountain: The Scientific Biography of Julian Schwinger. Oxford University Press. 2003. p. 601. ISBN 0-198-527-454.
  3. "Cornell university Department of physics". Retrieved 2013-10-19.
  4. "APS Fellow Archive (1990-present)". Retrieved 2013-10-19.
  5. Drell, S.; Yan, T. M. (1970). "Massive Lepton-Pair Production in Hadron-Hadron Collisions at High Energies". Physical Review Letters. 25 (5): 316. Bibcode:1970PhRvL..25..316D. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.25.316. S2CID 16827178.
  6. E. Eichten; K. Gottfried; T. Kinoshita; J. Kogut; K. D. Lane & T.-M. Yan (1975). "Spectrum of Charmed Quark–Antiquark Bound States". Physical Review Letters. 34 (6): 369–372. Bibcode:1975PhRvL..34..369E. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.34.369.
  7. E. Eichten; K. Gottfried; T. Kinoshita; K. D. Lane; T.-M. Yan (1978). "Charmonium: The Model". Physical Review D. 17 (11): 3090–3117. Bibcode:1978PhRvD..17.3090E. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.17.3090.
  8. E. Eichten, K. Gottfried, T. Kinoshita, K. D. Lane and Tung-Mow Yan (1980). "Charmonium: Comparison With Experiment". Physical Review D. 21 (1): 203–233. Bibcode:1980PhRvD..21..203E. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.21.203.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. T-M Yan's publications available on the INSPIRE-HEP Literature Database
  10. "YAN, Tung-Mow INSPIRE profile". 2013. Retrieved 2016-08-16.
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