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Dr. Moo-Young Han (born 1934) is a professor of physics at Duke University
Duke University

Duke University is a private university research university located in Durham, North Carolina, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodism and Religious Society of Friends in the present-day town of Trinity, North Carolina in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892....
. Along with Dr. Yoichiro Nambu
Yoichiro Nambu

is a Japan-born United States physicist, currently a professor at the University of Chicago. Known for his contributions to the field of theoretical physics, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008 for the discovery of the mechanism of Spontaneous symmetry breaking in subatomic physics....
 of the University of Chicago
University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park, Chicago neighborhood of Chicago. Although an older university by the same name existed prior to its founding, the modern University of Chicago credits its founding to the oil magnate John D....
, Dr. Han is credited with introducing the SU(3) symmetry of quarks, today known as the color charge
Color charge

In particle physics, color charge is a property of quarks and gluons which are related to their strong interactions in the context of quantum chromodynamics ....
. The color charge is the basis of the strong force as explained by quantum chromodynamics
Quantum chromodynamics

Quantum chromodynamics is a theory of the strong interaction , a fundamental force describing the interactions of the quarks and gluons making up hadrons ....
.

Han is the author of 4 books on quantum physics and advanced technology:

Dr. Han was born in Seoul, Korea. He emigrated to the US after the Korean War to attend Carroll College.






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Dr. Moo-Young Han (born 1934) is a professor of physics at Duke University
Duke University

Duke University is a private university research university located in Durham, North Carolina, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodism and Religious Society of Friends in the present-day town of Trinity, North Carolina in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892....
. Along with Dr. Yoichiro Nambu
Yoichiro Nambu

is a Japan-born United States physicist, currently a professor at the University of Chicago. Known for his contributions to the field of theoretical physics, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008 for the discovery of the mechanism of Spontaneous symmetry breaking in subatomic physics....
 of the University of Chicago
University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park, Chicago neighborhood of Chicago. Although an older university by the same name existed prior to its founding, the modern University of Chicago credits its founding to the oil magnate John D....
, Dr. Han is credited with introducing the SU(3) symmetry of quarks, today known as the color charge
Color charge

In particle physics, color charge is a property of quarks and gluons which are related to their strong interactions in the context of quantum chromodynamics ....
. The color charge is the basis of the strong force as explained by quantum chromodynamics
Quantum chromodynamics

Quantum chromodynamics is a theory of the strong interaction , a fundamental force describing the interactions of the quarks and gluons making up hadrons ....
.

Han is the author of 4 books on quantum physics and advanced technology:
  • The Secret Life Of Quanta (1990, McGraw-Hill)
  • The Probable Universe (1993, McGraw-Hill)
  • Quarks And Gluons (1999, World Scientific)
  • A Story Of Light: A Short Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
    Quantum field theory

    Quantum field theory or QFT provides a theoretical framework for constructing quantum mechanics models of systems classically described by field or of Many-body problem....
     of Quarks and Leptons (2004, World Scientific).


Dr. Han was born in Seoul, Korea. He emigrated to the US after the Korean War to attend Carroll College. He received his PhD from the University of Rochester and has been on the Duke physics faculty since 1967. His website is: http://www.duke.edu/~myhan/introp.html.