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Yia-Chung Chang

Taiwanese physicist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJun 13, 2022
Entity authorityQ60484928 ↗
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Yia-Chung Chang (Chinese: 張亞中) is a Taiwanese physicist.

Chang studied physics at National Cheng Kung University and completed a doctorate in the same field at the California Institute of Technology. Upon graduating, he joined the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign faculty. Chen was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2001. He returned to Taiwan in 2005, as a research fellow at Academia Sinica.

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This entry incorporates text from “Yia-Chung Chang” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.