Prominent Chinese High-Energy Physicist Ye Minghan Passes Away at 99
TapTechNews October 4th news, the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences released an obituary: Mr. Ye Minghan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, a famous experimental high-energy physicist, an expert in particle detection technology, the academic director of the China Center for Advanced Science and Technology, an outstanding member of the China Democratic League, the former director of the High Energy Physics Branch of the Chinese Physical Society, the former director of the Nuclear Electronics and Detection Technology Branch of the Chinese Nuclear Society, and the former director of the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Due to ineffective medical treatment, he passed away in Beijing at 12:30 on October 4, 2024, at the age of 99.
Mr. Ye Minghan is one of the pioneers of China's low-energy accelerators, low-energy nuclear physics experiments, particle detection technologies, and high-energy physics experiments. He is one of the main leaders of the large-scale scientific research project Beijing Electron-Positron Collider (BEPC) and Beijing Spectrometer (BES), and has made important contributions to China's construction of nuclear physics and high-energy physics experiment bases and occupying a place in the field of world high-energy physics experiment research.
In the 1950s, he participated in the development of China's first and second charged particle accelerators (electrostatic accelerators with energies of 700 keV and 2.5 MeV) and was responsible for their operation and improvement, obtaining a number of important results. Later, he took the lead in developing and developing a variety of particle detectors, carried out China's first batch of nuclear physics experiments, and made physical work at the international level. In the 1970s, he and Xiao Jian presided over the development of particle detectors commonly used in high-energy physics experiments such as multiwire proportional chambers and drift chambers, and took the lead in realizing on-line data acquisition of multiwire proportional chambers by computer in China. Since 1982, he has presided over the construction of the Beijing Spectrometer, a large-scale high-energy physics experiment particle detection device. The device was completed in 1988 and obtained a series of results with significant international influence such as the precise measurement of the tau lepton mass. He has won awards such as the Special Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award.
Mr. Ye Minghan is patriotic, dedicated, rigorous and realistic, indifferent to fame and fortune, and selfless dedication. He has cultivated a large number of excellent students, most of whom have become the backbone of high-energy physics and nuclear physics research. He is very concerned about the sustainable development of China's high-energy physics cause, put forward many useful suggestions for the construction of BEPCⅡ/BESⅢ, and laid a solid foundation for obtaining better physical results. His passing is a huge loss to the scientific and technological community in China! We deeply mourn and deeply cherish the memory of Mr. Ye Minghan! His spirit will always accompany us.
Mr. Ye, eternal presence, noble spirit endures!