Xie Jialin ( zh, s=谢家麟; 8 August 1920 – 20 February 2016) was a Chinese physicist. Born in

Harbin Harbin, ; zh, , s=哈尔滨, t=哈爾濱, p=Hā'ěrbīn; IPA: . is the capital of Heilongjiang, China. It is the largest city of Heilongjiang, as well as being the city with the second-largest urban area, urban population (after Shenyang, Lia ...

, he studied physics at

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. Upon graduation in 1943, Xie enrolled at

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, where he earned a Ph.D. in 1951. While working for the

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in 1955, he developed a particle accelerator used to treat cancerous tumors. Later that year, Xie returned to China and helped build the country's first particle accelerator. For his contribution to the development of the 30MeV electron

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, Xie was awarded the Scientific and Technological Achievement Prize at the 1978 National Science and Technology Conference. Xie went on to become the project director during design, development and construction of the Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPC), which was most notably used in precision measurement of the τ lepton. He received the

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for his work in 2011. Xie died on 20 February 2016 at the age of 95 in Beijing. The inner

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asteroid 32928 Xiejialin, discovered by

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at the Xinglong Station in 1995, is named in his honor. Naming citation was published on 5 January 2015 ().

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32928号小行星命名为“谢家麟星
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