![]() ![]() With an education supported almost entirely by scholarships, he subsequently earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1964. He graduated high school from Cushing Academy, Massachusetts in 1960. He immigrated to the United States with his family in 1955 under the Eisenhower Refugee Relief Act of 1953. In the background is a cryostat, probably a liquid argon based calorimeter in Professor Doke's laboratory.īorn in Chunking, China in 1942, Chen had an early childhood of wartime instability and insecurity. This idea led Chen to develop plans for the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory that would eventually make fundamental measurements demonstrating that neutrinos were particles with mass.Ĭhen (left) and Professor Tadayoshi Doke (right) during a visit to Waseda University in Tokyo in 1986. ![]() In 1984 Chen realized that the deuterium of heavy water could be used as a detector that would distinguish the flavors of solar neutrinos. Chen's work on observations of elastic neutrino- electron scattering provided important experimental support for the electroweak theory of the standard model of particle physics. Herbert Hwa-sen Chen ( Chinese: 陈华生) (Ma– November 7, 1987) was a theoretical and experimental physicist at the University of California at Irvine known for his contributions in the field of neutrino detection. Electromagnetic simulation of time reversal violation (1968) ![]()
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