Editing Samuel C. C. Ting (section)

== Nobel Prize ==
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In 1976, Ting was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]], which he shared with [[Burton Richter]] of the [[Stanford Linear Accelerator Center]], for the discovery of the [[J/psi meson|J/ψ meson]] nuclear particle. They were chosen for the award, in the words of the Nobel committee, "for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind."<ref>{{cite web
|url = https://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1976/
|title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1976
|publisher = nobelprize.org
|access-date = October 9, 2009
|archive-date = August 26, 2009
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090826122728/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1976/
|url-status = live
}}</ref> The discovery was made in 1974 when Ting was heading a research team at MIT exploring new regimes of [[High energy physics|high energy particle physics]].<ref>
{{cite journal 
|journal = [[Physical Review Letters]]
|volume = 33 |issue = 23 |pages = 1404–1406
|year = 1974
|title = Experimental Observation of a Heavy Particle J
|doi = 10.1103/PhysRevLett.33.1404
|bibcode = 1974PhRvL..33.1404A
|last1 = Aubert |first1 = J. J. |display-authors=etal |doi-access = free }}</ref>

Ting gave his Nobel Prize acceptance speech in [[Standard Chinese|Mandarin]]. Although there had been Chinese Nobel Prize recipients before ([[Tsung-Dao Lee]] and [[Chen Ning Yang]]), none had previously delivered the acceptance speech in [[Chinese Language|Chinese]]. In his Nobel banquet speech, Ting emphasized the importance of experimental work:

: ''In reality, a theory in natural science cannot be without experimental foundations; physics, in particular, comes from experimental work. I hope that awarding the Nobel Prize to me will awaken the interest of students from the developing nations so that they will realize the importance of experimental work.''<ref>{{Cite web |url = https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1976/ting-speech.html |title = Samuel C.C.Ting - Banquet Speech |date = December 10, 1976 |access-date = June 1, 2014 |website = Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2013. |archive-date = July 30, 2014 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140730003501/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1976/ting-speech.html |url-status = live }}</ref>