"In the rainy season of a city like Boston, there are thousands of raindrops fallen in a minute. If there is one droplet in different color, we must find that droplet out." It was his astonishing firm; persistent stamina that made Samuel C. C. Ting discovered the "J" particle, the fourth type of elementary particle that constitutes matter. This won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1976, that means coming after Chen-Ning Yang, Tsung-Dao Lee, he became the third Chinese scientist who was awarded the same honor.

Samuel C.C.Ting was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A. on 27th January 1936, when his parents were visiting the America. Three months later, he returned to China with his parents. It was in the early stage of the Second World War, and Japan had launched her invading plan on China. Therefore, Ting spent his childhood in repeated fleeing within China's border in turmoil. At that time, his father was a professor of university and her mother was a revolutionary. Since both of them were working, Ting was brought up by his maternal grandmother. The resolute character of his grandmother had a great effect upon Ting's strict attitude in working.

When Ting was twelve, he settled down in Taiwan with his parents. Then he started receiving standard education. It so happened that Japan ended her 50-year-governance of Taiwan, and therefore remained the strict and efficient education system. In the period of his secondary education, Ting was very diligent. He never shrank back when facing difficulties; instead he would investigate thoroughly into the matters until all were made clear. Owing to his serious attitude of learning, he was admitted to the best senior high school in Taipei. To satisfy the desire of pursuing truth, he spent plenty of time in studying Chemistry and Physics. As a result, he had built up a strong foundation in these two subjects that his classmates ever had.

In 1956, he traveled to the America alone and studied in the School of Engineering, University of Michigan. At the outset, his classmates were not willing to associate with him because of his poor English. The gap in language communication even raised problems in his livelihood. But he did not lose heart. On the other hand, he studied even harder. In the second term, he not only mastered English well, but also obtained excellent results in every subject. This won him scholarships so that he could afford living and continue studies. After a year's study, he found that he had great interest in Mathematics and Physics, so he changed to the School of Science for advancement. He managed to obtain degrees in both Mathematics and Physics, as well as a Ph.D.degree in Physics only within six years.

After graduation, he determined to devote himself to research work, so he chose a comparative low waged job in the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) of Geneva, Switzerland. One year later, he went to the University of Columbia to serve as lecturer of Physics. He then turned to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to serve as a professor. His main direction of research was high-energy particle physics, including quantum electrodynamics, electroweak theory, and quantum chromodynamics.

Since1966, the experiment team led by Ting had held a series of experiments on quantum electrodynamics and vector meson. This widened people's knowledge of the vector meson. Also, the correctness of quantum electrodynamics was then verified. From 1972 to 1974, the team was holding experiments in the Brookhaven National Laboratory of the America, and discovered the fourth type of quark. Owing to the similarity between English letter "J" and Chinese character "¤B" (Ting), Ting named the discovery as "J" particle, which implies that it was a particle discovered by Chinese. In 1979 Ting worked with scientists such as Tang at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and discovered gluon, which transmits energy between quarks.

Ting is modest and courteous. He works carefully and always shows doubts on his ability and experimental results, and consequently he repeatedly examines his work to avoid mistakes all the time. In concluding his personal experiences, he said that his ability is limited, only hard-working and being not afraid of difficulties could bring outstanding result and make contribution to certain area. He said that those young people who had the intent on scientific research should broaden their experience and have a clear understanding of the direction of scientific development.