Press ReleaseAug 21, 2017
Association of Asia-Pacific Physical Societies (AAPPS)
Division of Plasma Physics (AAPPS-DPP)

Subramanyan Chandrasekhar Prize of Plasma Physics– Professors C.Z. Cheng and L.C. Lee are selected as Laureate of 2017 –The Division of Plasma Physics (Chair: Mitsuru Kikuchi) under the
Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies (President: Gui-Lu Long)
selected Professor Chio Zong Cheng of the National Cheng Kung
University and Professor Lou-Chuang Lee of the Academia Sinica as the2017 Laureates of S. Chandrasekhar Prize of Plasma Physics, which isawarded to scientists who have made seminal / pioneering contributions in
the field of plasma physics.
Citations
C.Z. Cheng：For original and pioneering contributions in fusion and space plasmas
that include the theoretical discovery of Torodicity-Induced Alfven Eigenmodes, theinvention of a splitting scheme for Vlasov simulation, pioneering three-dimensional
Particle-In-Cell turbulence simulations in tokamaks, and the establishment ofmagnetized plasma experimental capability and space instrumentation development
in Taiwan.
L.C. Lee: For his seminal contributions to space plasma physics in the theories ofstrong scintillations, auroral kilometric radiation, multiple X-line reconnection,and dynamic formation of solar prominences, as well as the discovery of gigantic jetsin the atmosphere; and outstanding leadership in the successful FORMOSAT satellite
program in Taiwan.
Contact points：
AAPPS-DPP Chair, Mitsuru Kikuchi(National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Naka Fusion
Institute)
TEL: +81-29-270-7294, +81-90-2564-0837, FAX: +81-29-270-7264
AAPPS-DPP Secretary, Haruo Nagai
TEL: 080-1096-4575
AAPPS-DPP Homepage Address：http://aappsdpp.org/AAPPSDPPF/index.html

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On the achievements of Professors C.Z. Cheng and L.C. Lee

Professor Chio Zong Cheng (left) and Professor Lou-Chuang Lee (right)
Professor C.Z. Cheng and Professor L.C. Lee have made original and seminal
contributions in plasma physics as in their citations above.
Prof. C.Z. Cheng worked at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in USA(1975-2005) and made theoretical discovery of the plasma instability driven byenergetic particles called the TAE mode (Cheng, Chen, Chance 1985; Cheng, Chance1986) that will be an important for the mission achievement in ITER. Then, hedeveloped a numerical code NOVA-K (Cheng 1992; Cheng, Chance 1987) which has
been widely used to study TAEs in tokamaks such as TFTR (USA) and JT-60U(Japan). He also made original contribution to simulation scheme of the Vlasov
simulations (Cheng, Knorr, 1976). He developed the kinetic ballooning instability
theory as substorm onset mechanism (Cheng, Lui 1998). His publications received
over 10, 300 citations in Google Scholar (H-index 54) and over 6900 citations in
Web of Science (WoS) (H-index 45), with 10 articles having more than 100 WoS
citations.
Prof. L.C. Lee is one of the pioneers in space plasma physics. He developed astrong scintillation theory for the scattering of radio waves by turbulent plasma
observed in radio astronomy (Lee, Jokipii I, II 1975) and also predicted Kolmogorov
spectrum for the interstellar medium. He developed a landmark theory of auroral
kilometric radiation (AKR) known as the cyclotron maser theory of AKR (Wu, Lee1979; Lee, Wu 1980). He also identified key energy transfer process from the solar
wind to the magnetosphere through magnetopause (Lee, Kan 1979; Kan, Lee 1979)and explained the intermittent magnetic reconnection called the flux transfer event(FTE) by a multiple X line reconnection (MXR) process (Lee, Fu, 1985). His
publications have received over 10, 600 citations in Google Scholar (H-index 56) andover 7700 citations in WoS (H-index 45), with 14 articles having more than 100 WoScitations.
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Appendix-1: Certificates of 2017 S. Chandrasekhar Prize of Plasma Physics
Certificate and medal will be given at the First Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics inSeptember 18-23 at Chengdu, China.

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1. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Astrophysicist born in India. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983 for his theoreticalstudies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of stars, including theChandrasekhar limit on the mass of white dwarf stars. His research covered several broad areas, asseen from his texts, which included Principles of Stellar Dynamics (1942), Hydrodynamics andHydromagnetic Stability (1981), and an influential book based on his lecture notes in Plasma
Physics (1960).

2. AAPPS: Association of Asia-Pacific Physical Societies（HP: http://www.aapps.org/main/index.php）
The Association of physical societies in the Asia Pacific region founded by the Nobel Laureate inPhysics C.N. Yang, and Professor Akito Arima in 1983. The AAPPS held the 12th Asia PacificPhysics Conference under the president (at that time) Shoji Nagamiya in Makuhari, Japan. The
current president is Professor Gui-Lu Long, Tsinghua University, China.

3. AAPPS-DPP: Division of Plasma Physics, AAPPS（HP : http://aappsdpp.org/AAPPSDPPF/index.html ）The first division under the AAPPS based on the success of the plasma physics program in theAPPC-12. This division was formed in January 2014 based on the recommendation of Professor
Nagamiya at the AAPPS council.

4. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Prize of Plasma Physics
Plasma physics prize was founded by the AAPPS-DPP in July 2014. This prize is given to aplasma physicist annually for pioneering and/or seminal contribution to plasma physics. The 2014,2015 and 2016 prize recipients were Professor S. Ichimaru, Professor P. Kaw and Professor D.
Melrose (http://aappsdpp.org/AAPPSDPPF/prizetable.html). The 2017 prize is co-sponsored byHEFEI KEJUGAO Technology CO. LTD (合肥科聚⾼技术有限责任公司).
The 2017 Selection Committee composed of leading plasma physicists in Asia-Pacific region.
The chairman is Professor Abhijit Sen (Institute for Plasma Research) and members are, Professor
Yasushi Ono (The University of Tokyo), Professor Hideo Sugama (National Institute of Fusion
Science), Professor Liu Chen (Zhejiang University), Professor Yutong Li (Institute of Physics,CAS), Professor Chan-He Nam (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology), ProfessorDong-Hun Lee (Kyung Hee University), Professor Robert Dewar (Australian National University),
Professor Don Melrose (University of Sydney), Professor Ravindra Kumar (Tata Institute ofFundamental Research), Professor Lin I (National Central University), Professor Kwo Ray Chu(National Taiwan University).

5. H-index:
The definition of the index is that a scholar with an index of H has published H papers each ofwhich has been cited in other papers at least H times

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