Xie Jialin

Xie Jialin (Chinese: 谢家麟; 8 August 1920 – 20 February 2016) was a Chinese physicist.

In this Chinese name, the family name is Xie.
Xie Jialin
谢家麟
Born(1920-08-08)8 August 1920
Harbin, Heilongjiang, Republic of China
Died20 February 2016(2016-02-20) (aged 95)
Beijing, People's Republic of China
Alma materWuhan University
Yenching University
California Institute of Technology
Stanford University
AwardsHighest Science and Technology Award (2011)
Scientific career
FieldsParticle accelerator
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago Medical Center
Institute of High Energy Physics
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese谢家麟
Traditional Chinese謝家麟

Born in Harbin, he studied physics at Yenching University. Upon graduation in 1943, Xie enrolled at Stanford University, where he earned a Ph.D. in 1951. While working for the University of Chicago Medical Center 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 Linear particle accelerator, Xie was awarded the Scientific and Technological Achievement Prize at the 1978 National Science and Technology Conference.[1] 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.[1][2] He received the State Preeminent Science and Technology Award for his work in 2011.[3] Xie died on 20 February 2016 at the age of 95 in Beijing.[3]

The inner main-belt asteroid 32928 Xiejialin, discovered by SCAP at the Xinglong Station in 1995, is named in his honor.[4] Naming citation was published on 5 January 2015 (M.P.C. 91791).[5]

References
  1. "Jialin Xie wins China's top science award". Retrieved 30 May 2019.
  2. Bai, J. Z.; Bardon, O.; Becker-Szendy, R. A.; Burnett, T. H.; Campbell, J. S.; Chen, S. J.; Chen, S. M.; Chen, Y. Q.; Cheng, Z. D.; Coller, J. A.; Cowan, R. F.; Cui, H. C.; Cui, X. Z.; Ding, H. L.; Du, Z. Z.; Dunwoodie, W.; Fang, C.; Fero, M. J.; Gao, M. L.; Gao, S. Q.; Gao, W. X.; Gao, Y. N.; Gu, J. H.; Gu, S. D.; Gu, W. X.; Guo, Y. N.; Guo, Y. Y.; Han, Y.; Hatanaka, M.; et al. (23 November 1992). "Measurement of the mass of the τ lepton". Physical Review Letters. 69 (21): 3021–3024. Bibcode:1992PhRvL..69.3021B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.3021. PMID 10046705.
  3. 国家最高科技奖获得者谢家麟逝世(图) (in Chinese). NetEase. 21 February 2016. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  4. "32928 Xiejialin (1995 QZ)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  5. "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
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