Lee C. Teng


Lee C. Teng is a senior physicist emeritus at the Advanced Photon Source of the Argonne National Laboratory. He has made numerous contributions to the field of accelerator physics.

Career

Teng was born in Beijing, but his ancestral home is in Fuzhou. He graduated from The Catholic University of Peking in Beijing in 1946. Teng left his native China in 1947 to attend graduate school in physics at the University of Chicago.
Since receiving his PhD in 1951, Lee has worked at the University of Minnesota, the Wichita State University, Argonne National Laboratory, and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. He was the Director of the Particle Accelerator Division at Argonne National Laboratory.
In 1983, Teng took a partial leave of absence from Fermilab to serve as the founding director of what is now the National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center in Taiwan.

Honors

In 1956, on his first trip to Taiwan he was awarded the "Gold Medal of
Achievement" by the Chinese Ministry of Education.
He received the "Distinguished Service Award" from the American Immigrants
Service League in 1962.
In 1964 he was elected to member of Academia Sinica, Taiwan/Republic of China.
He was conferred an "Honorary Professor" of the Beijing Normal University in 1970.
In 2007, the American Physical Society awarded Teng the .
The was created jointly by Argonne, Fermilab, and the US Particle Accelerator School in 2007 in Teng's honor.