Nobel laureate Samuel C. C. Ting to students: determination matters
Tainan, Taiwan, August 17, 2015
Determination matters, according to Samuel Chao Chung Ting, Nobel laureate and MIT physicist, who had an hour seminar with physics students at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan, on August 14.
Ting encouraged students to maintain positive attitude when things aren’t going well and to explore their natural curiosity which is the key stone in doing research.
Ting was talking about his research attitude and experience to the physics majors after he finished a science research seminar on basic structure of the universe to a packed audience at Cheng-Shing Hall of Medical College, NCKU, on August 13.
The winner of Nobel Prize in Physics 1976 shared his journey of discovery with the students. His stories about the J particle, anti-universe, dark matter, and the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) triggered curiosity among the students.
Ting pointed out that the most important goal for AMS is to explore the unknown and investigate phenomenon that we cannot imagine and see for the time being.
“Natural science research is very competitive. There’s no second place, only the first,” said Ting when talking about his personal reflections on lifelong pursuit for scientific truth.
One of the students asked Ting how he copes with pressure. Ting responds that he personally is not sensitive to stress coming from external sources but patient to mistakes made by others.
When being asked which research is the most meaningful one, Ting said the one he is conducting now matters to him because the result is not yet found.
He also highlighted the importance of experiment and suggested students to be objective and face the outcome without any prejudice even though the result is not consistence with previous expectation.
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Determination matters, according to Samuel Chao Chung Ting, Nobel laureate and MIT physicist, who had an hour seminar with physics students at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan, on August 14.
Ting encouraged students to maintain positive attitude when things aren’t going well and to explore their natural curiosity which is the key stone in doing research.
Ting was talking about his research attitude and experience to the physics majors after he finished a science research seminar on basic structure of the universe to a packed audience at Cheng-Shing Hall of Medical College, NCKU, on August 13.
The winner of Nobel Prize in Physics 1976 shared his journey of discovery with the students. His stories about the J particle, anti-universe, dark matter, and the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) triggered curiosity among the students.
Ting pointed out that the most important goal for AMS is to explore the unknown and investigate phenomenon that we cannot imagine and see for the time being.
“Natural science research is very competitive. There’s no second place, only the first,” said Ting when talking about his personal reflections on lifelong pursuit for scientific truth.
One of the students asked Ting how he copes with pressure. Ting responds that he personally is not sensitive to stress coming from external sources but patient to mistakes made by others.
When being asked which research is the most meaningful one, Ting said the one he is conducting now matters to him because the result is not yet found.
He also highlighted the importance of experiment and suggested students to be objective and face the outcome without any prejudice even though the result is not consistence with previous expectation.
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