Kan-Chang Wang

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This is a Chinese name; the family name is Wang (王).

Kan-Chang Wang (Chinese: 王淦昌; pinyin: Wáng Gànchāng; Wade-Giles: Wang Kan-ch'ang) (May 28, 1907 - December 10, 1998) was an experimental high energy physicist from China. He received a B.S. in Physics from Tsinghua University and went to Germany to pursue his Ph.D.. He got his Ph.D. under supervision of Lise Meitner. In 1934, he went back to China and joined Shandong University. Later he became a faculty member of Physics and then the department chair at National University of Chekiang (now Zhejiang University).

Wang first proposed the use of beta-capture to detect the neutrino in 1942.^[1] Later Frederick Reines and Clyde Cowan employed his suggestion and discovered the neutrino and won the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Wang also led a group to discover the Sigma particle at Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia in 1962.^[2]

He went back to China and played an important role in designing a hydrogen bomb. China's first hydrogen bomb was successfully tested on June 17, 1967.