AsianScientist (Nov. 11, 2016) – Professor Wang Yifang, director of the Institute of High Energy Physics and member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has been elected a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).
Wang was honored for his achievements in physics and collaborations with Russia’s Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, a scientific research organization in Dubna, Moscow. Only the most prominent foreign scientists recognized by the international scientific community can be elected by the RAS General Assembly to be Foreign Members of RAS.
A renowned particle physicist, Wang led the design and construction of the BESIII detector at the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider and the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment to precisely measure the neutrino mixing angle θ13. He was previously awarded the W. K. H. Panofsky Prize, the 20th Nikkei Asia Prize, and the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
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Source: Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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