Samuel Ting (born 27.01.1936) was an American experimental physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1977). He was born in Ann Arbor. He graduated from the University of Michigan (1960), where he received his doctorate in 1962. In 1963 — 64 he worked at CERN, in 1964—69 at Columbia University, and from 1969 he was professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
His research concerned high-energy physics, elementary-particle physics, quantum electrodynamics and the interaction of gamma radiation with matter. Independently of B. Richter he discovered (1974) the psi particles (Nobel Prize, 1976).
The E. Lawrence Medal (1976).