Talk:Samuel C. C. Ting

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Ting's citizenship

Another author had revised the lede to portray Ting as only being a U.S. citizen. The intro previously referred to him as 'Taiwanese American'. However from his bio section, Ting apparently resided full time in Taiwan until his entered a U.S. university at age 20, likely because he had dual citizenship.

Does anyone have citations for his citizenship status? I'd be surprised if he wasn't, in fact, a dual U.S.-Taiwanese citizen. Best: HarryZilber (talk) 17:49, 19 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

USA does not recognise dual citizenships. 86.136.200.108 (talk) 01:23, 4 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, yes it does. See? --67.204.7.28 (talk) 20:31, 8 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nobel Prize speech summary sentence inaccurate

I found Ting's Nobel speech in translation and believe this sentence at the end of the Nobel Prize section of this article to be in error:

Ting emphasized that the importance of experimental work equals that of theoretical work. (citation needed)

I started out expecting to provide a citation and remove the tag, but it now looks like someone with more physics expertise than I have needs to rewrite the sentence, or just delete it.

On the second page of the translation (the page numbered 317 in the pdf) Ting comments on the congruence of the measured g-factor anomaly of the muon with the calculated value, and ends the comparison with the comment, "a most fantastic achievement of experiment and theory." There are so few other references to theoretical work in the 28-page translation (one in which Ting says, "I do not usually have much confidence in theoretical arguments...") that the conclusion he emphasized the importance of experimental work equals that of theoretical work seems unwarranted/wrong.

Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 06:33, 29 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind-- got it sorted. Citation now to his banquet speech, not his acceptance speech.

Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 19:17, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted occupations of Ting's children

See Notability is not inherited. Listing subject's children is sufficient, as their occupations do not add to understanding of the article and become a maintenance/sustainability issue for current information. Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 22:17, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Grand'mere Eugene:Bold is good.^^ Nevertheless the mere fact that Ting married and had children should be referenced. Can you find it somewhere? - W.carter (talk) 16:34, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, W.carter I'm still looking. So far I have only found sites that are obvious copies of the original Wikipedia article. Details of personal lives are problematic, as the source is almost always the subject of the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Grand'mere Eugene (talk • contribs) 00:09, 3 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations Grand'mere Eugene! You found it. :) I know how hard the smallest facts sometimes are to find. Well done on not giving up. - W.carter (talk) 20:59, 4 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks W.carter...I think my OCD is showing? Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 22:38, 4 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Chinese name

Why is his Chinese name included (in Chinese characters)? This is English Wikipedia, and he was born in Michigan. Magnolia677 (talk) 00:46, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Magnolia677:See J/psi_meson#The_name. Ting's lab building at MIT is marked with a huge "丁". I am told "丁'not only was his preferred name for the particle for which he and Richter won the Nobel, in Chinese it translates to "Ting". In English, we read it as the letter J, and we say the particle was the "J-psi". Cheers!Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 20:14, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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The location/country of Rizhao

In Biography section, I have commented out the country name for Rizhao, a place name in two paragraphs to prevent edit war. For factuality, Rizhao is on mainland China, not in Taiwan, and I presume that was why Dr.Ting's parents fled to Taiwan. Appreciate your insight to make change, or I don't have access to the cited reference. --Omotecho (talk) 05:40, 24 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, but this makes it all very confusing. Clicking on the link to Shandong, where the reader (finally) understands that his parents are from mainland China. It is interesting, I think, that Ting's parents then fled to Taiwan. I'm going to adjust the first paragraph of the bio section. Attic Salt (talk) 13:29, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]