Zhao Zhengguo

Zhao Zhengguo is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and an experimental particle physicist. He is a professor at the University of Science and Technology of China and currently serves as the vice-chairman of the Chinese Physical Society. He has worked at the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, ETH Zurich in Switzerland, and the University of Michigan in the United States. 

Zhao has made outstanding contributions in the field of particle physics experimentation. He was the first to observe the broadening of the ground state energy level in strange pionic hydrogen and pionic deuterium due to strong interaction. The BES, led by Zhao, accurately measured the R value, playing a crucial role in indirectly searching for the Higgs boson and determining its mass using weak interaction data. Zhao has made great contribution in the construction of the precision muon spectrometer for the ATLAS detector at the large hadron collider (LHC) and the discovery of the Higgs boson and the study of di-boson physics.

In 2005, he was awarded Second Prize in National Natural Science Award, and in 2014, he received the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Advancement Award in Physics.