Famous experimental high-energy physicist Academician Ye Minghan has passed away

Comrade Ye Minghan, an ally of the Chinese Democratic League, an academician of the CAE Member, a famous experimental high-energy physicist, an expert in particle detection technology, and the former director of the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, died in Beijing on October 4, 2024 at the age of 99

Ye Minghan was born on April 2, 1925 in Shanghai. Graduated from the Department of Physics at Tsinghua University in 1949, started working in July of the same year, and joined the Chinese Democratic League in June 1989. He has successively served as associate researcher, director and director of the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and academic director of the China Center for Advanced Science and Technology. In 1995, he was elected as an academician of the CAE Member

Ye Minghan is one of the pioneers in China's low-energy accelerators, low-energy nuclear physics experiments, particle control measurement technology, and high-energy particle physics experiments. He participated in the development of China's first and second charged particle accelerators, led the construction of the large-scale high-energy physics experiment particle detection device (Beijing Electron Positron Collider) Beijing Spectrometer, and achieved a series of internationally significant achievements such as precise measurement of the mass of Tao leptons. We have cultivated a large number of backbone talents in high-energy physics and nuclear physics research, making important contributions to China's construction of nuclear physics and high-energy physics experimental bases, and occupying a place in the world's high-energy physics experimental research field. Has won the National Science and Technology Progress Award Special Prize