Wang Yifang (; born February 1963 in Jiangsu) is a Chinese particle and accelerator physicist. He is director of the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and known for contributions to neutrino physics, in particular his leading role (with

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) at

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to determine the last unknown neutrino mixing angle θ 13 (see neutrino). After earning his bachelor's degree in physics at Nanjing University (1984) he was with Samuel CC Ting at the

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the

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(LEP) of

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. Wang worked and studied at the University of Florence obtaining PhD in Physics, then worked at Laboratory for Nuclear Science of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at

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and joined the Institute of High Energy Physics(IHEP), China in 2001 as a researcher and became the Director in 2011.

Awards and honors

* Panofsky Prize (shared with

) in 2014 * Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in 2016, with

. *Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015. *Member of The World Academy of Sciences in 2016. *2019

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*2022

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Since 2014 Wang has been Director of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) in Southern China leading the experiment in an effect to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy with neutrinos from nuclear reactors.

References

1963 births Living people Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Foreign Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences Fellows of the American Physical Society Physicists from Jiangsu Scientists from Nanjing TWAS fellows Winners of the Panofsky Prize Winners of the Nikkei Asia Prize People associated with CERN {{China-scientist-stub