Edward Yao
York-Peng Edward Yao is a physicist from Hong Kong.
Yao is from Hong Kong.[1][2] During his junior year of college, Yao received a nonresident scholarship from the University of California, Berkeley to complete his baccalaureate studies in engineering,[1] and graduated in 1960.[2] Yao completed his master's degree and doctorate at Harvard University, advised by Julian Schwinger, who helped Yao obtain a postdoctoral research position with J. Robert Oppenheimer at the Institute for Advanced Study.[3] In 1966, Yao began teaching at the University of Michigan as an assistant professor. He became associate professor in 1972 and full professor in 1978.[4] In 1995, Yao was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society "[f]or his important contributions to the quantization of gauge theories with spontaneous symmetry breaking and many interesting calculations in the standard model."[5][6] Yao was granted emeritus status in 2008.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Register - University of California. Vol. 2. University of California Press. 1958. p. 202.
- ^ a b Commencement. University of California, Berkeley. 1960. p. 79.
- ^ Mehra, Jagdish; Milton, Kimball A. (2003). Climbing the Mountain: The Scientific Biography of Julian Schwinger. Oxford University Press. p. 600. ISBN 9780198527459.
- ^ a b "York Peng (Ed) Yao". University of Michigan. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
- ^ "York Peng (Ed) Yao". University of Michigan. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
- ^ "APS Fellow Archive". Yao, York-Peng Edward [1995]. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
