Alexander Wu Chao (born July 2, 1949)[1] is a Taiwanese-American physicist, specializing in accelerator physics.
When the U.S. Congress cancelled the SSC project in 1993, Chao returned to SLAC as a full professor at Stanford University.
[2] Chao's research on accelerator physics and beam-beam interactions, include "collective instability theory for intense charged-particle beams, nonlinear dynamics of particle motion in accelerators, spin dynamics, laser-particle interaction, and physics of coherent radiation sources.
"[4] He was involved in the development of important accelerator projects at SLAC, including the Stanford Linear Collider (SLC),[5] PEP,[6] and SPEAR.
[8] Chao was elected in 1989 a Fellow of the American Physical Society and in 2002 an Academician of Academia Sinica, Taiwan.