| Moses Hung-Wai Chan | |
| Birth Date: | 23 November 1946 |
| Birth Place: | Xi'an, China |
| Nationality: | American |
| Fields: | Condensed matter physics, Low temperature physics |
| Workplaces: | Penn State University |
| Alma Mater: | Bridgewater College(BSC), Cornell University(Ph.D.) |
| Doctoral Advisor: | John Reppy |
| Known For: | Research in Low temperature physics, on solid 4He. |
Moses Hung-Wai Chan is a Chinese-American physicist who is Evan Pugh Professor at Pennsylvania State University. He is an alumnus of Bridgewater College and Cornell University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1974 and was a postdoctoral associate at Duke University. He has been a professor at Penn State's University Park Campus since 1979.
Through the years, Chan's work has spanned many diverse topics.[1] For his numerous contributions to low-temperature physics, in 1996 he shared the prestigious Fritz London Memorial prize with Carl Wieman and Eric A. Cornell.[2] He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2000, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004.[3]
Chan is known for the experimental discovery of evidence for a new supersolid quantum state of matter,[4] [5] predicted theoretically in 1969 by Alexander Andreev and Ilya Liftshitz, and its subsequent refutation.[6] Other significant discoveries include the experimental observation of Critical Casimir effect[7] and the experimental confirmation of 2D Ising model.[8]