Tai Tsun Wu (simplified Chinese: 吴大峻; traditional Chinese: 吳大峻; pinyin: Wú Dàjùn, December 1, 1933 – July 19, 2024) was a Chinese-born American physicist and writer well known for his contributions to high-energy nuclear physics and statistical mechanics.
Born in Shanghai, he studied electrical engineering at University of Minnesota and became a William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition fellow (1953).
With Hung Cheng, he used gauge quantum field theory to predict the unboundedly increasing total scattering cross sections at very high energies, experimentally verified at CERN and Tevatron collider.
His studies with Chen Ning Yang include CP violation, globalization of the gauge theory,[3] and the Wu–Yang dictionary.
[4] He published his last research paper on Concept of the basic standard model and a relation between the three gauge coupling constants at the age of 90 along with his wife Sau Lan Wu.