Ting, Samuel Chao Chung (1936– )

US physicist. In 1974 he and his team at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, detected a new subatomic particle, which he named the J particle. It was found to be identical to the ψ particle discovered in the same year by Burton Richter and his team at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, California. Ting and Richter shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1976 for their discovery of the ψ meson.

In 1996 Ting was at CERN and the Massachusetts Institute for Technology, working on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a spacebased antiparticle detector.