Tai Tsun Wu (simplified Chinese: 吴大峻; traditional Chinese: 吳大峻; pinyin: Wú Dàjùn, December 1, 1933 – July 19, 2024) was a Chinese-born American physicist and writer well known for his contributions to high-energy nuclear physics and statistical mechanics.

Jul 23, 2024 · Tai was a formidable faculty member of both the Harvard physics department and SEAS. He was known for his groundbreaking research in both perturbative quantum field theory and in statistical physics.

吴大峻出生于上海，曾在 明尼苏达大学 学习电子工程，后于哈佛大学获得应用物理硕士及博士学位。 现任哈佛大学 应用物理学 教授，曾获 台湾中央研究院 院士（1980）、Dannie Heineman数学物理奖（1999）。 他是 杨振宁 先生的学生，同时也是他的合作者。 两人在长达半个多世纪的合作中，在 统计力学 、 量子场论 及 高能物理 等领域做出了不少重要的工作。 此后8年，他师从杨先生学习了 量子力学 、统计力学，并在量子场论及粒子物理方面合作完成了一些工作。 1962 …

Nov 21, 2024 · Tai Tsun Wu, a distinguished theoretical physicist and professor of physics and applied physics at Harvard University, passed away on 19 July 2024 in Palo Alto, California. He was 90 years old. Wu was known for his groundbreaking research in antenna theory, statistical physics, and perturbative quantum field theory.

Tai Tsun Wu is Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard University. His research interests include classical electromagnetic radiation, statistical mechanics, and high-energy particle physics.

Tai Tsun Wu, American Physicist, educator. Recipient Alexander von Humboldt award, 1985; Putnam scholar, 1953; fellow A.P. Sloan Foundation, 1960-1966; fellow National Science Foundation, 1966-1967; Guggenheim Foundation, 1970-1971.

Tai Tsun Wu was born in Shanghai, China, on December 1, 1933. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1953, and the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in applied physics from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, in 1954 and 1956, respectively.

Professor Wu Tai Tsun has made important contributions to a number of subjects in theoretical physics, including the following. In 1960, he pioneered the study of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) through the pair-excitation function when periodic boundary conditions do not apply.

May 28, 2015 · Discovery of the First Yang–Mills Gauge Particle — The Gluon (Sau Lan Wu) Yang–Mills Gauge Theory and Higgs Particle (Tai Tsun Wu & Sau Lan Wu) Scenario for the Renormalization in the 4D Yang–Mills Theory (L D Faddeev)

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