Wang Yifang
Wang Yifang (Chinese: 王贻芳; born February 1963)
is a Chinese particle and accelerator physicist. He is Wang Yifang
director of the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) 王贻芳
of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and Born 20 February 1963
known for contributions to neutrino physics, in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
particular his leading role (with Kam-Biu Luk) at Daya Alma mater Nanjing University
Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment to determine the last University of Florence
unknown neutrino mixing angle θ 13 (see neutrino).[1]
Children 2
After earning his bachelor's degree in physics at Scientific career
Nanjing University (1984) he was with Samuel CC Fields Physics
Ting at the L3 experiment the Large Electron-Positron
Institutions Institute of High Energy
Collider (LEP) of CERN. Wang worked and studied at
Physics
the University of Florence obtaining PhD in Physics,[2] Jiangmen Underground
then worked at Laboratory for Nuclear Science of the
Neutrino Observatory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Stanford
University[3] and joined the Institute of High Energy Chinese name
Physics(IHEP), China in 2001 as a researcher and Simplified Chinese 王贻芳
became the Director in 2011.[4] Traditional Chinese 王貽芳
Transcriptions
Awards and honors Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin Wáng Yífāng
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
1. "Wang Yifang----Institute of High Energy Physics" (https://web.archive.org/web/2016030404
1119/http://english.ihep.cas.cn/pe/staff/200909/t20090902_35275.html).
english.ihep.cas.cn. Archived from the original (http://english.ihep.cas.cn/pe/staff/200909/t20
090902_35275.html) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
2. "WANG Yifang----Institute of High Energy Physics" (https://web.archive.org/web/202110270
64405/http://english.ihep.cas.cn/doc/1747.html). english.ihep.cas.cn. Archived from the
original (http://english.ihep.cas.cn/doc/1747.html) on 2021-10-27. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
3. "INSPIRE: Yifang Wang—author profile" (https://inspirehep.net/authors/984106).
inspirehep.net. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
4. "Prize Recipient" (http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm).
www.aps.org. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
5. "Breakthrough Prize" (https://breakthroughprize.org/News/29). breakthroughprize.org.
Retrieved 2016-02-03.
6. "Nine CAS Scientists Elected TWAS Fellows" (http://english.cas.cn/newsroom/news/20161
1/t20161117_170678.shtml). Chinese Academy of Sciences. 2016-11-17. Retrieved
2019-05-05.
7. "Wang Yifang wins 2019 Future Science Prize----Institute of High Energy Physics" (https://w
eb.archive.org/web/20200517024702/http://english.ihep.cas.cn/doc/3744.html).
english.ihep.cas.cn. Archived from the original (http://english.ihep.cas.cn/doc/3744.html) on
2020-05-17. Retrieved 2020-12-24.
8. "Fellows nominated in 2022" (https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.c
fm?initial=&year=2022). APS Fellows archive. American Physical Society. Retrieved
2022-10-19.
9. 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 (https://news.science
net.cn/htmlnews/2024/5/522012.shtm). sciencenet.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 4 May 2024.
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