Tang Xiaowei

Tang Xiaowei
Born	October 1931 Wuxi, Jiang Su, China
Citizenship	China
Alma mater	Tsinghua University
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Chinese Academy of Sciences

Tang Xiaowei (Chinese: 唐孝威; pinyin: Tang Xiao Wei) ( October 1931 - ) is a Chinese physicist who has made contributions to the Chinese applied physics field. Now he is a academician in Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and worked in Zhejiang University as a professor and doctor tutor.

Life and Education

He was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province when it is in the October, 1931. His famaly has a strong academic atmosphere. He graduated from the Department of Physics in Tsinghua University. After graduation, he worked in different institutes doing nuclear research. At present, he is a professor and doctor tutor in Zhejiang University. Besides, he is also an adjunct professor of Peking University and University of Science and Technology China. His researches generally concern nuclear physics and high-energy experimental physics. He obtained some great achievements in the cross-field between physics and other subjects such as biology, medical science and neurobiology. As he was so authoritative in his field, he was awarded by the Chinese government as a National Model Worker in 1979, and was elected as a delegate to the 12th and 13th National Congress of China Communist Party.

Career

His early career in physics is about High Energy and application to the nuclear technology. In recent years, he put most of his efforts in the cross-field between physics and medical science. One of his famous contribution to Chinese is that he has joined in the research of Chinese first atom bomb and Chinese first satellite. In the projet, his experiment is about the atom bomb’s ignition. As a academician in Chinese Academy of Siences, he devoted himself to the measurement of electro-magnetic cascade shower and the study of particle detector with his group. During his career as a doctor tutor, he has instructed many outstanding scholars for the physics field of China.

Accomplishments

In 1950s, he was doing the research of nuclear detector and some pion experiments. Ten years later, he turned into the national defense scientific research field. In 1970s, he participated in the famous event for China: 'The Atom Bomb, Superatomic Bomb and Satellite Projet', which is well-known as the 'Two Bombs and One Star' projet for all the Chinese. At the end of the 70s, he restarted his work in experimental high energy physics. At the same time, he was sent to Hamburg and Geneva to doing some cooperation research in the field of high energy physics. In 1980s, he began teaching, but at the same time, he still did his research in many physics fields. Later, he joined in the AMS study(Alfa spectrometer). When it came to 1990s, Tang made efforts in medical physics and brain science. 12 years ago, he and several Chinese neural scientists started the "Human Brain Project". At the beginning of the 21st century, he focused on the research of dreams, mood and conscious.

Tang's Three "Launches"

There are three big challenges in Tang Xiaowei's life. He changed his direction of research at each time. So these three big challenges are called "launches" among Tang's friends and family.

The First "Launch"

Working on Chinese "Atom Bomb Projet". This work includes nuclear test and the invention of nuclear detector. In 1952, Tang was graduated from Tsinghua University and assigned to Chinese Academy of Science. His team at the Ninth Academy invented China's first nuclear detector. At that time, Chinese geologists were finding uranium mines all over China. Tang's detector made great contribution in this researching activity. In 1958, he was sent to Dubna Union Nuclear Institute. In 1960, he received an order and came back to China. He was made a team leader and was responsible for the nuclear test.

The Second "Launch"

Discover the secrets of gluon. August, 1977, Professor Ding Zhaozhong visited China, the general secretary of the Communist Party of China ask Professor Ding to cultivate 100 physicists for China. Professor Tang was the leader of the first team. This team arrived at Hamburg in January, 1978. This team cooperate with an American team whose leader is Professro Ding. These two teams worked in the project called "MARK-J experiment" at DESY. During their research, a fundamental particle that transmits strong interaction force was discovered, then this particle was named gluon.

External links

• Profile from Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences