Chii-Dong Lin

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Chii-Dong Lin (born 1946) is a Taiwanese physicist.

Lin was born in 1946, and is a native of Changhua County. [1] After graduating from National Taiwan University in 1969, he earned a doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1974 and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University until 1976, when he joined the Kansas State University faculty. [2] [3] [4] In 1985, Lin was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society, "[f]or his pioneering hyperspherical coordinate analyses of two electron atoms and ions, and his contribution to the development of the relativistic random phase approximation for atomic photoionization. [5] In 1990, Lin was appointed to a distinguished professorship. [2]

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References

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  3. "Chii-Dong Lin". Kansas State University. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  4. "Chii-Dong Lin University Distinguished Professor". Kansas State University. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  5. "APS fellow archive". American Physical Society. Retrieved 23 July 2023.