Yung-su Tsai (born 1 February 1930 in

Yuli, Hualien ; Bunun: (Hanzi transliterated by 1917: ) , capital = , nickname = , settlement_type = Urban township , motto = , image_skyline = F ...

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the no ...

) is a Taiwan-born American theoretical particle physicist who was a professor at Stanford University and was noted for his work at the

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, originally named the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, is a United States Department of Energy National Laboratory operated by Stanford University under the programmatic direction of the U.S. Departme ...

and specifically the discovery of the tau

lepton In particle physics, a lepton is an elementary particle of half-integer spin (spin ) that does not undergo strong interactions. Two main classes of leptons exist: charged leptons (also known as the electron-like leptons or muons), and neutr ...

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