Nobel Laureate in Physics, foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Science, member of the U.S. National Academy of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, foreign member of the Russian Academy of Science

He is the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His main contributions to physics include: Discovery of nuclear anti-matter (the anti-deuteron). Measuring the size of the electron family (the electron, the muon, and the tau) showing that the electron family has zero size (with a radius smaller than 10-17 cm). Precision study of light rays and massive light rays showing that light rays and massive light rays can transform into each other at high energies and providing a critical verification of the quark model. Discovery of a new kind of matter (the J particle) at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. The Nobel Prize was awarded to Ting for this discovery. Discovery of the gluon (the particle responsible for transmitting the nuclear force). A precision measurement of muon charge asymmetry, demonstrating for the first time the validity of the Standard Electroweak Model. Determination of the number of electron families and neutrino species in the Universe and the precision verification of the Electroweak Unification Theory. Development of the first large superconducting magnet for space application. Proposed, constructed and leads the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) experiment on the International Space Station involving the participation of a 16-nation collaboration searching for the existence of antimatter, the origin of dark matter and the properties of cosmic rays. AMS results, based on ten years in space and more than 192 billion cosmic rays, have changed our understanding of the cosmos. Ting also award Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award (from the U.S. government), Eringen Medal (from the Society of Engineering Science), DeGaspari Award in Science (from the Italian government), Award for Compelling Results in Physical Sciences (NASA), Erice Prize for Peace (from World Federation of Scientists), etc.