Ching-Liang Lin
{{Short description|Taiwanese physicist and professor (1931–2019)}}
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Ching-Liang Lin ({{zh|t=林清凉}}; 22 January 1931 – 18 November 2019) was a Taiwanese physicist and professor at National Taiwan University. She was the first woman to be head of the university's department of physics.
Life
She was born in 1931 in Takao Prefecture (present-day Kaoshiung). She graduated from Kaohsiung Municipal Kaohsiung Girls' Senior High School. She was a witness to the February 28 incident in 1947 which killed thousands in Taiwan and resulted in decades of martial law known as the White Terror. During this time, she chose to focus on the study of physics. She attended the University of Tokyo and was awarded a doctorate in physics in 1966.{{Cite web|url=https://www.phys.ntu.edu.tw/member/main1.aspx?mem_id=95|title=國立臺灣大學物理學系|website=www.phys.ntu.edu.tw|access-date=2019-12-11}} She returned to Taiwan in 1970 and was asked to create a physics department at Soowchow University. She married another academic, Feng Tsuan Hua, around 1972 and they left for a couple of years to work in Massachusetts in the United States at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
She became a professor of physics at the National Taiwan University. From 1981 to 1983 she was the head of the department of physics at the university. As of 2019 she is the only woman to hold this role.{{Cite web|url=https://www.phys.ntu.edu.tw/guide/powerman.aspx|title=國立臺灣大學物理學系|website=www.phys.ntu.edu.tw|access-date=2019-12-11}} Whilst she was in charge, she arranged an audit of the department, and it was found that a radioactive source that was meant to be stored safely was missing. The newspapers reported the problem, and it was only when national bodies became involved that the radium - beryllium neutron source was found.[https://web.phys.ntu.edu.tw/physhistory/spacetime/vol_22/v22_p22.pdf report in Chinese about the missing radiation source], accessed 11 December 2019 She wanted to concentrate on teaching, so she stood down from her management role. She continued to teach for twenty years, and she was cited as a role model for other women to study physics.{{Cite web|url=http://web.pts.org.tw/php/mealc/main.php?XMAENO=624|title=你的公共電視－Taiwan Public Television Service Online|website=web.pts.org.tw|access-date=2019-12-11}}
She retired and died in 2019[https://www.ps-taiwan.org/news.php?id=12&fid=1&nid=463 Announcement in Chinese by the Taiwan Physical Society] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20191211073116/https://www.ps-taiwan.org/news.php?id=12&fid=1&nid=463 |date=2019-12-11 }}, 2019, accessed 11 December 2019 at National Taiwan University Hospital.
Selected works
- Theory of Two Nucleon Stripping Reactions. I—(d, α) and (α, d) Reactions—, 1964{{Cite journal|last1=Lin|first1=Ching Liang|last2=Yoshida|first2=Shiro|date=1964-12-01|title=Theory of Two Nucleon Stripping Reactions. I—(d, α) and (α, d) Reactions—|journal=Progress of Theoretical Physics|language=en|volume=32|issue=6|pages=885–903|doi=10.1143/PTP.32.885|issn=0033-068X|bibcode=1964PThPh..32..885L|doi-access=free}}
- Prog. Theor. Phys.vol 36 (1966) p. 251287. Theory of Two-Nucleon Transfer Reaction II.
- CL Lin, S. Yamaji and H. Yosbida: Nucl. Phys. Vol.A204 (1973) p. 135152. Finite Range Calculations of the Two-Nucleon Transfer Reactions.
- FJ Kline, CL Lin and GA Peterson: Nucl. Phys. vol.A241 (1975) p. 299310. Inelastic Electron Scattering from 31p.
- CL Lin and Kuo-Ping Li: Prog. Theor. Phys. vol. 81 (1989) p. 140159. Nuclear Exchange Currents in Quantum Hadrodynamics.
In addition she has a large number of patents in her name.{{Cite web|url=https://patents.justia.com/inventor/ching-liang-lin|title=Ching-Liang Lin Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications - Justia Patents Search|website=patents.justia.com|access-date=2019-12-11}}
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Category:Taiwanese women physicists
Category:Scientists from Kaohsiung
Category:20th-century women scientists
Category:21st-century women scientists
Category:20th-century Taiwanese physicists
Category:21st-century Taiwanese physicists
Category:Academic staff of the National Taiwan University
Category:Academic staff of Soochow University (Taiwan)
Category:Taiwanese expatriates in the United States
Category:University of Tokyo alumni
Category:Taiwanese expatriates in Japan
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