Wang Yifang (Chinese:王贻芳; born February 1963) is a Chinese particle and acceleratorphysicist. He is director of theInstitute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of theChinese Academy of Sciences inBeijing and known for contributions toneutrino physics, in particular his leading role (withKam-Biu Luk) atDaya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment to determine the last unknown neutrino mixing angleθ₁₃.^[1]

After earning his bachelor's degree in physics atNanjing University in 1984, he worked withSamuel CC Ting on theL3 experiment located at theLarge Electron-Positron Collider (LEP) ofCERN. Wang studied at theUniversity of Florence, obtaining his PhD in Physics.^[2] He would then go on to work for the Laboratory for Nuclear Science located at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and later atStanford University.^[3] He later joined the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) in China as a researcher in 2001, eventually becoming the director in 2011.^[4]

• 2014Panofsky Prize (shared withKam-Biu Luk)^[4]
• 2015 Member ofChinese Academy of Sciences
• 2016Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, withKam-Biu Luk.^[5]
• 2016 Member ofThe World Academy of Sciences^[6]
• 2016 and 2020Asian Scientist 100,Asian Scientist^[7]
• 2019Future Science Prize^[8]
• 2022Fellow of the American Physical Society^[9]
• 2024 Foreign associates of theNational Academy of Sciences^[10]
• 2025 Foreign Member of theRoyal Society^[11]

Since 2014 Wang has been Director of theJiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) in Southern China leading the experiment in an effect to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy with neutrinos from nuclear reactors.^[4]

• 1963 births
• Living people
• Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Fellows of the American Physical Society
• Physicists from Jiangsu
• Scientists from Nanjing
• Fellows of The World Academy of Sciences
• Winners of the Panofsky Prize
• Winners of the Nikkei Asia Prize
• People associated with CERN
• Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
• Foreign members of the Royal Society
• Nanjing University alumni
• University of Florence alumni

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