Wang Yifang
Wang Yifang | |||||||
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王贻芳 | |||||||
Born | (1963-02-20) 20 February 1963 (age 61) Nanjing, Jiangsu, China | ||||||
Alma mater | Nanjing University University of Florence | ||||||
Children | 2 | ||||||
Scientific career | |||||||
Fields | Physics | ||||||
Institutions | Institute of High Energy Physics Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory | ||||||
Chinese name | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 王贻芳 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 王貽芳 | ||||||
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Wang Yifang (Chinese: 王贻芳; born February 1963) is a Chinese particle and accelerator physicist. He is director of the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and known for contributions to neutrino physics, in particular his leading role (with Kam-Biu Luk) at Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment to determine the last unknown neutrino mixing angle θ 13 (see neutrino).[1]
After earning his bachelor's degree in physics at Nanjing University (1984) he was with Samuel CC Ting at the L3 experiment the Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP) of CERN. Wang worked and studied at the University of Florence obtaining PhD in Physics,[2] then worked at Laboratory for Nuclear Science of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Stanford University[3] and joined the Institute of High Energy Physics(IHEP), China in 2001 as a researcher and became the Director in 2011.[4]
Awards and honors
- 2014 Panofsky Prize (shared with Kam-Biu Luk)[4]
- 2015 Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, with Kam-Biu Luk.[5]
- 2016 Member of The World Academy of Sciences[6]
- 2019 Future Science Prize[7]
- 2022 Fellow of the American Physical Society[8]
- 2024 Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences[9]
Since 2014 Wang has been Director of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) in Southern China leading the experiment in an effect to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy with neutrinos from nuclear reactors.[4]
References
- ^ "Wang Yifang----Institute of High Energy Physics". english.ihep.cas.cn. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
- ^ "WANG Yifang----Institute of High Energy Physics". english.ihep.cas.cn. Archived from the original on 2021-10-27. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
- ^ "INSPIRE: Yifang Wang—author profile". inspirehep.net. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
- ^ a b c "Prize Recipient". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
- ^ "Breakthrough Prize". breakthroughprize.org. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
- ^ "Nine CAS Scientists Elected TWAS Fellows". Chinese Academy of Sciences. 2016-11-17. Retrieved 2019-05-05.
- ^ "Wang Yifang wins 2019 Future Science Prize----Institute of High Energy Physics". english.ihep.cas.cn. Retrieved 2020-12-24.
- ^ "Fellows nominated in 2022". APS Fellows archive. American Physical Society. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
- ^ Ni Sijie (倪思洁) (1 May 2024). 王贻芳当选为美国国家科学院外籍院士. sciencenet.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 4 May 2024.
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- Ian Agol (2016)
- Jean Bourgain (2017)
- Christopher Hacon, James McKernan (2018)
- Vincent Lafforgue (2019)
- Alex Eskin (2020)
- Martin Hairer (2021)
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physics
- Nima Arkani-Hamed, Alan Guth, Alexei Kitaev, Maxim Kontsevich, Andrei Linde, Juan Maldacena, Nathan Seiberg, Ashoke Sen, Edward Witten (2012)
- Special: Stephen Hawking, Peter Jenni, Fabiola Gianotti (ATLAS), Michel Della Negra, Tejinder Virdee, Guido Tonelli, Joseph Incandela (CMS) and Lyn Evans (LHC) (2013)
- Alexander Polyakov (2013)
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- Saul Perlmutter and members of the Supernova Cosmology Project; Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess and members of the High-Z Supernova Team (2015)
- Special: Ronald Drever, Kip Thorne, Rainer Weiss and contributors to LIGO project (2016)
- Yifang Wang, Kam-Biu Luk and the Daya Bay team, Atsuto Suzuki and the KamLAND team, Kōichirō Nishikawa and the K2K / T2K team, Arthur B. McDonald and the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory team, Takaaki Kajita and Yōichirō Suzuki and the Super-Kamiokande team (2016)
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- Special: Jocelyn Bell Burnell (2018)
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- Special: Sergio Ferrara, Daniel Z. Freedman, Peter van Nieuwenhuizen (2019)
- The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (2020)
- Eric Adelberger, Jens H. Gundlach and Blayne Heckel (2021)
- Special: Steven Weinberg (2021)
- Hidetoshi Katori and Jun Ye (2022)
- Charles H. Bennett, Gilles Brassard, David Deutsch, Peter W. Shor (2023)
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- Cornelia Bargmann, David Botstein, Lewis C. Cantley, Hans Clevers, Titia de Lange, Napoleone Ferrara, Eric Lander, Charles Sawyers, Robert Weinberg, Shinya Yamanaka and Bert Vogelstein (2013)
- James P. Allison, Mahlon DeLong, Michael N. Hall, Robert S. Langer, Richard P. Lifton and Alexander Varshavsky (2014)
- Alim Louis Benabid, Charles David Allis, Victor Ambros, Gary Ruvkun, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier (2015)
- Edward Boyden, Karl Deisseroth, John Hardy, Helen Hobbs and Svante Pääbo (2016)
- Stephen J. Elledge, Harry F. Noller, Roeland Nusse, Yoshinori Ohsumi, Huda Zoghbi (2017)
- Joanne Chory, Peter Walter, Kazutoshi Mori, Kim Nasmyth, Don W. Cleveland (2018)
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- Clifford P. Brangwynne, Anthony A. Hyman, Demis Hassabis, John Jumper, Emmanuel Mignot, Masashi Yanagisawa (2023)
- Carl June, Michel Sadelain, Sabine Hadida, Paul Negulescu, Fredrick Van Goor, Thomas Gasser, Ellen Sidransky and Andrew Singleton (2024)
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