Chung Liang Tang (Chinese: 湯仲良; 14 May 1934 – 31 May 2022) was a Chinese-born American applied physicist.
Tang was born in China, and moved to avoid hostilities in the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Communist Revolution, making his way to San Francisco via Taiwan in 1950.
[1][4] Tang worked for Raytheon from 1960 to 1964,[2][5] then joined the Cornell University faculty as an associate professor.
[1] He was promoted to a full professorship in 1968,[2] and subsequently appointed the Spencer T. Olin Professor of Engineering in 1985.
[2][5] He was the 1996 recipient of the OSA's Charles Hard Townes Award, recognized "for seminal and pioneering advances in the field of nonlinear optics and laser physics".