A ceremony of granting the honorary professor title to the Nobel Prize winner John L. Hall was held on October 28th. Our President Yu Lizhong issued the engagement letter to him. Besides receiving it, Professor Hall shared many advanced ideas and stories with us, which were of great significance.
When the journalist had an interview with him, Professor Hall had just watched the State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy at ECNU. He told the journalist excitingly, “When I came to ECNU the past times, the laboratory was in a small house equipped with simple instruments. And this time I find that it is completely new. It is really amazing. It is the high-level equipment and excellent scholars that the laboratory has produced the high-class research results. The achievement is hard to make. I feel very happy.”
Professor John Hall is a senior researcher of NIST, a part-time professor of Colorado University, a part-time researcher of JILA, and academician of American State Academy. He was also awarded the honorary Order of France. And in 2005 he won the Nobel Prize for Physics because of his innovative achievement in the areas as precision spectroscopy.
Ding Liang’en of the State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy at ECNU said, “It is good news to us that John Hall, a world-renowned scientist, can become our honorary professor. He can give us useful suggestions, which would throw some insights for our experiments.
“Professor Hall is very famous. I am very lucky to see in person the Nobel Prize winner,” Dr. Fang Yi of Department of Physics told the journalist, “More fortunately, we talked with him about the problems in our experiments. The experience is quite precious.”
“When I went for Germany for academic exchanges, I had communicated with Professor Hall. He is really a leader in our field,” said associate Professor Wu E, a youth teacher of the State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy. She told the journalist, “He gives many good suggestions to help us do programs. We gain a lot from those ideas.”
Professor John Hall has been a tenure scientist since 1971. He had published over 200 articles and enjoyed 11 American Patent.
