Jiangsu-born scientist listed in top 10 science stars of China
(ec.js.edu.cn) Updated：2016-06-23
A Jiangsu-born nuclear physicist, along with another nine Chinese scientists, was selected by Nature magazine as Science Stars of China, according to the journal's latest online issue on June 21.
Wang Yifang, director of the Institute of High Energy Physics under the Chinese Academy of Science, was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu province in 1963. He graduated from the department of physics of Nanjing University in 1984. After graduation, he did research on genetic particles as a pupil of the well-known Chinese-American physicist Samuel Chao Chung Ting. In 1992, Wang received his doctorate from the University of Florence in Italy and then worked as a member of research staff at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and as a researcher associate at Stanford University in the US. He gave up his career at Stanford and came back to China in 2002.
He received the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics on Nov 9, 2015, for his contribution to the Daya Bay neutrino experiment, which can provide clues to the origins of the universe. Wang was selected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in December, 2015.
