Lee C. Teng (; 5 September 1926 – 24 June 2022) is a senior physicist emeritus at the

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of the

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. He has made numerous contributions to the field of accelerator physics.

Career

Teng was born in

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, but his ancestral home is in

Fuzhou Fuzhou (; , Fuzhounese: Hokchew, ''Hók-ciŭ''), alternately romanized as Foochow, is the capital and one of the largest cities in Fujian province, China. Along with the many counties of Ningde, those of Fuzhou are considered to constitute t ...

. He graduated from The Catholic University of Peking (now

Fu Jen University Fu Jen Catholic University (FJU, FJCU or Fu Jen; or ) is a private Catholic university in Xinzhuang, New Taipei City, Taiwan. The university was founded in 1925 in Beijing at the request of Pope Pius XI and re-established in Taiwan in 1961 at ...

) in Beijing in 1946. Teng left his native China in 1947 to attend graduate school in physics at the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...

. Since receiving his

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in 1951, Lee has worked at the

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, the Wichita State University,

, and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab). He was the Director of the Particle Accelerator Division at Argonne National Laboratory. In 1983, Teng took a partial leave of absence from Fermilab to serve as the founding director of what is now the National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC) in Taiwan.

Honors

In 1956, on his first trip to Taiwan he was awarded the "Gold Medal of Achievement" by the Chinese Ministry of Education. He received the "Distinguished Service Award" from the American Immigrants Service League in 1962. In 1964 he was elected to member (Academician) of

Academia Sinica Academia Sinica (AS, la, 1=Academia Sinica, 3=Chinese Academy; ), headquartered in Nangang, Taipei, is the national academy of Taiwan. Founded in Nanking, the academy supports research activities in a wide variety of disciplines, ranging from ...

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. He was conferred an "Honorary Professor" of the

Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University (BNU, ), colloquially known as Beishida (), is a public research university located in Beijing, China, with a strong emphasis on humanities and sciences. It is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in China ...

in 1970. In 2007, the

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awarded Teng th
Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators
Th
"Lee Teng Internship in Accelerator Science and Engineering"
was created jointly by Argonne, Fermilab, and the US Particle Accelerator School in 2007 in Teng's honor.

Death

Lee Teng passed away on 24 June 2022, after a period in hospice care.

References

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Career

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