Tung-Mow Yan

Tung-Mow Yan (Chinese: 顏東茂; born 1937) is a Taiwanese-born American physicist, who has specialized in theoretical particle physics; primarily in the structure of elementary particles, the standard model, and quantum chromodynamics. He is professor emeritus at Cornell University.

He graduated with a BS in physics in 1960 at National Taiwan University (NTU), an MS in physics at National Tsing Hua University (Hsinchu) in 1962, and earned a Ph.D. in physics in 1968 at Harvard University, under the supervision of Julian Schwinger.

From 1970 to 2009 Yan worked at Cornell University, in particular the Cornell High-Energy Synchrotron Source and Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics (combined into the Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based Sciences and Education as of 2006). He became a professor in 19??. By 2010 he reached the status of professor emeritus in physics.

Other affiliations during Yan's life and work are:

In the 1970s, Yan and Sidney Drell investigated the important Drell–Yan process of massive lepton pair production in hadronic collisions, which provides a crucial experimental probe into the parton distribution functions. These describe the way that the momentum of an incoming high-energy nucleon is partitioned among its constituent partons.

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