Herbert H. Chen
| Herbert Hwa-sen Chen | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 16, 1942 Chungking, China |
| Died | November 7, 1987 (aged 45) Irvine, CA United States |
| Nationality | USA |
| Fields | Particle physics |
| Institutions | University of California, Irvine |
| Alma mater |
California Institute of Technology (BS) Princeton University (PhD) |
| Thesis | Electromagnetic simulation of time reversal violation (1968) |
| Doctoral advisor | Sam Treiman |
Herbert Hwa-sen Chen (Chinese: 陈华生) (March 16, 1942 – November 7, 1987) was a theoretical and experimental physicist at the University of California at Irvine known for his contributions in the field of neutrino detection. Chen's work on observations of elastic neutrino-electron scattering provided important experimental support for the electroweak theory of the standard model of particle physics. In 1984 Chen realized that the deuterium of heavy water could be used as a detector that would distinguish the flavors of solar neutrinos. This idea led Chen to develop plans for the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory that would eventually make fundamental measurements demonstrating that neutrinos were particles with mass.
Born in Chunking, China in 1942, Chen had an early childhood of wartime instability and insecurity. He immigrated to the United States with his family in 1955 under the Eisenhower Refugee Relief Act of 1953. He graduated high school from Cushing Academy, Massachusetts in 1960. With an education supported almost entirely by scholarships, he subsequently earned a bachelor of science degree in physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1964. Chen then earned his doctorate in theoretical physics from Princeton University in 1968, writing his thesis on "Electromagnetic simulation of time reversal violation" under the supervision of Sam Treiman.
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