顏東茂 教授
He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in physics in 1960 at National Taiwan University (NTU), an Mississippi in physics at National Tsing Hua University (Hsinchu) in 1962, and earned a Doctor of Philosophy in physics in 1968 at Harvard University, under the supervision of Julian Schwinger.
He is professor emeritus at Cornell University. 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 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:
1968–1970: research associate at SLAC
1973–1974: visiting scientist to SLAC
1977–1978: scientific associate at European Organization of Nuclear Research
1974–1978: Sloan Fellowship
1986: visiting chair professor at the physics department of NTU
Since 1991: a fellow of the American Physical Society
1991–1992: special chair professor, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Republic of China
1997: Director, National Center of Theoretical Sciences, Republic of China
In the 1970s, Yan and Sidney Drell investigated the important Drell–Yan process of massive lepton pair production in hadronic collisions, 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.
American Physical Society.
