Yung-su Tsai (born 1 February 1930 in
Yuli, Hualien
Yuli Township (; Japanese: Tamazato >Kanji: [, , Bunun language, Bunun: (Hanzi transliterated by 1917: ), is an Township (Taiwan), urban township located in central Huadong Valley, and also the southern administrative center of Hualien ...
, Taiwan
) is a Taiwanese-born American theoretical particle physicist who was a professor at Stanford University and was noted for his work at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and specifically the discovery of the
tau (particle), tau lepton
In particle physics, a lepton is an elementary particle of half-integer spin (Spin (physics), spin ) that does not undergo strong interactions. Two main classes of leptons exist: electric charge, charged leptons (also known as the electron-li ...
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References
1930 births
Living people
Particle physicists
People from Hualien County
Stanford University faculty
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