AWARDEE OF PHYSICS PRIZE

WANG YENING

Abstract

Wang Yening, a famous physicist and expert in internal friction, was born in Anqing, Anhui in Oct. 1926. Wang graduated from the Physics Department of Central University in 1949 and ever since then has been working at the Department of Physics, Nanjing University, experiencing as teaching assistant, lecturer, professor in assistant and professor. In 1981 she was authorized as director of doctor graduates by State Department and later member of Chinese Academy of Science in 1991. Also she was the 8th and 9th member of CPPCC.
In 1953 Wang attended in an advanced studies in metal physics and internal friction at the Institute of Metal Research, tutoring after Prof. Ge Tingsui. One year later she returned to Nanjing University and assisted Prof. Shi Shiyuan and Chen Kaijia in establishing the first domestic X-ray Metal Physics Specialization. From then on Prof. Wang has been working at the front of teaching and scientific research. For decades she engages in the study of generalized phase transitions and the behaviors of defects covering from metals to oxide crystals. As well as her discoveries of new laws and mechanisms, innovations of experimental methods have won her numerous recognition and awards: National Industrial New Products Award (1964), Award of National Science and Technology Conference (1978), National Natural Science Award (Ⅱ) (1982), National Education Committee Science and Technology Improvement Award (Ⅰ) (1990), National Natural Science Award (Ⅳ) (1991), Golden Ox Award (1994), Science and Technology Improvement Award (Ⅰ & Ⅱ) (Jiangsu Province, 1999). Till today Prof. Wang has published more than 200 research papers and their total times being cited are over 500. According to an abroad authoritative statistic in 1990 she was among the top 150 authors in the field of high-TC superconductors all over the world. And her outstanding works have been highly evaluated by worldwide colleagues, her coupling relaxation theory applying to the collective relaxation process of defects in alloys has been named as Wang's theory, Prof. D. M. Ginzberg (University of Illinois) once mentioned Wang's group as the best of best who study high-TC superconductors in the way of internal friction and ultrasonic attenuation in his summarization on an international conference in 1992. Many a time Wang has been invited to give lectures on international conferences and assumed the office of Conference Consultant Committeeman. And now she is also the member of Asia-Pacific Academy of Material Science.