Tung-Mow Yan (Chinese: 顏東茂; born 1937) is a Taiwanese-born American physicist, who has specialized in theoretical particle physics; primarily in the structure of elementary particles, the Standard Model, and quantum chromodynamics.
Other affiliations during Yan's life and work are:[3] In the 1970s, Yan and Sidney Drell investigated the important Drell–Yan process of massive lepton pair production in hadronic collisions,[5] which provides a crucial experimental probe into the parton distribution functions.
These describe the way that the momentum of an incoming high-energy nucleon is partitioned among its constituent partons.
In the same decade, he pioneered the Cornell potential, shedding light on the properties of heavy quark–antiquark systems (charmonium), with Estia J. Eichten, Toichiro Kinoshita, Ken Lane and Kurt Gottfried.
[6][7][8] Tung-Mow Yan is the author or co-author of the following books: and numerous physics publications[9] in collaboration with other theoretical physicists, including Kurt Gottfried and Sidney Drell.