Why Famous:Samuel Ting received the 1976 Nobel Prize for Physics together with Burton Richter - for both independently discovering the subatomic J/ψ particle.
In 2001, Ting was head of a successful international effort to install the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station to search for the origin of cosmic rays and dark matter.
1976-12-10 Samuel C. C. Ting is the first person to deliver a Nobel Prize lecture in Mandarin, during the ceremony to award him and Burton Richter the Nobel Prize for Physics for discovering the J/ψ particle
2011-05-19 Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, project to search for dark matter, led by Samuel C. C. Ting, installed on the International Space Station
Carlos Saavedra Lamas
Gerhart Hauptmann
Ralph Bunche
Hans Christian Ørsted
Paul Dirac
Robert Hofstadter