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Chen Jia'er (Chinese:陈佳洱; born 1 October 1934) is a Chinese nuclear physicist, anaccelerator physicist and an academician of theChinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
Chen was born inShanghai, and graduated from the department of physics of Northeast China People's University (nowJilin University) inChangchun in 1954. From 1955, he was a teacher in the department oftechnology physics atPeking University, and was elevated to vice department chair. From 1963 to 1965, Chen was invited by BritishRoyal Society and became a visiting scholar in department ofnuclear physics atOxford University andRutherford Appleton Laboratory,[1] studying serial electro-static accelerator andsynchrotron. From 1982 to 1984, he was a visiting scientist atStony Brook University andLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In August 1984, Chen became the vice president and dean of graduate school ofPeking University. He was also appointed as the director of Institute of Heavy Particle Physics at PKU. In November 1993, Chen was elected an academician of theChinese Academy of Sciences, Maths and Physics section. From August 1996 to December 1999, Chen served as the president of Peking University. In 1998, he became the president ofAsian-Pacific Physics Society. In December 1999, Chen was appointed to be the director ofNational Natural Science Foundation of China.[2]
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