Chii-Dong Lin (born 1946) is a Taiwanese physicist. Lin was born in 1946, and is a native of

Changhua County Changhua (Wade-Giles: ''Chang¹-hua⁴'') is a Taiwanese County (Taiwan), county that is the smallest on the Geography of Taiwan, main island of Taiwan by area, and the fourth smallest in the country. With a total population of 1.24 million, Chan ...

. After graduating from

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in 1969, he earned a doctorate from the

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in 1974 and was a postdoctoral fellow at

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until 1976, when he joined the

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faculty. In 1985, Lin was elected a fellow of the

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, " r his pioneering hyperspherical coordinate analyses of two electron atoms and ions, and his contribution to the development of the relativistic random phase approximation for atomic photoionization. In 1990, Lin was appointed to a distinguished professorship.

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