Yung-su Tsai (born 1 February 1930 in

Yuli, Hualien ; Bunun language, Bunun: (Hanzi transliterated by 1917: ) , capital = , nickname = , settlement_type = Township (Taiwan), Urban township , motto = , i ...

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

) is a Taiwan-born American theoretical particle physicist who was a professor at Stanford University and was noted for his work at the

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, originally named the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, is a United States Department of Energy National Laboratory operated by Stanford University under the programmatic direction of the U.S. Departme ...

and specifically the discovery of the

tau Tau (uppercase Τ, lowercase τ, or \boldsymbol\tau; el, ταυ ) is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the voiceless dental or alveolar plosive . In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 300. The name in English ...

lepton.

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