14 Facts About Sow-Hsin Chen

Sow-Hsin Chen, was a Taiwanese physicist and Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Sow-Hsin Chen was a recognized pioneer in the research of the dynamic properties of supercooled and interfacial water with the use of neutron scattering techniques.

Sow-Hsin Chen contributed significantly to the development of the technique of the Photon Correlation Spectroscopy.

Sow-Hsin Chen constructed the first 128-channel digital photon correlator in the US in 1970 and applied it to investigate critical phenomenon in a binary liquid mixture.

Sow-Hsin Chen applied PCS to studies of dynamic critical phenomena in binary liquid mixtures; the coexistence of critical phenomena and percolation transition in three-component microemulsions and copolymer micellar solutions; and ergodic to non-ergodic transitions when crossing the kinetic glass transition line of a copolymer micellar system with a short-range attraction.

Sow-Hsin Chen was reported in Nature as "A physicist ventures into the no-man's land of water to find the source of its unusual properties" Subsequently, one of his peer-reviewed scientific articles received the 2006 PNAS Editorial Board Cozzarelli Award for its outstanding scientific excellence and originality.

Sow-Hsin Chen was active as an organizer of domestic and over 20 international conferences and symposia as well as the NATO Advanced Study Institutes.

Sow-Hsin Chen served as chairman of a Gordon Conference on Physics and Chemistry of Water in 1986.

Sow-Hsin Chen was active as a consultant to developing countries with regard to their nuclear power development programs.

Sow-Hsin Chen served as an advisor to the National Science Council and the Institute of Nuclear Energy Research of the Republic of China, and the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute of the Republic of Korea on the matter of nuclear power planning and development in the respective countries since 1972.

In 2006 and 2008, Sow-Hsin Chen was the organizer and US Chairman of the first and second Joint Symposia on Neutron Sciences and Technology in China, jointly sponsored by the US National Science Foundation and the Chinese counterpart agencies.

Sow-Hsin Chen met Dr Ching-chih Sow-Hsin Chen in 1959 while both were studying at the University of Michigan.

Sow-Hsin Chen's publications include over 360 peer-reviewed journal publications and approximately 80 non-journal publications.

Sow-Hsin Chen was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, and the Neutron Scattering Society of America.