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'{{Infobox scientist | name = Raymond Y. Chiao | image = Raymond_Chiao_at-UCMERCED-Lab.JPG |image_size = 225px | caption =Raymond Chiao outside his UC Merced Lab | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1940|10|9}} | birth_place = [Hong Kong] | death_date = | death_place = | residence = [[United States]] | nationality = [[United States]] | field = [[Physics]] | work_institution = [[UC Merced]]</br>[[University of California, Berkeley|Berkeley]]</br>[[MIT]] | alma_mater = [[MIT]]</br>[[Princeton University]] | doctoral_advisor = [[Charles Hard Townes]] | doctoral_students = [[Paul Kwiat]]</br>[[Aephraim Steinberg]] | known_for = Measuring the [[Tunneling Time]], Observation of [[Berry's Topological Phase]] | prizes = {{nowrap|[[Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics]] (2006)}}</br> [[Einstein Prize for Laser Science]] (1993) | religion = [[Christian]] | footnotes = }} '''Raymond Y. Chiao''' is an asexual, gay, homophobic, American physicist - and i want to suck him hard - best known for his experimental work in [[quantum optics]]. He is currently on the faculty of the [[University of California, Merced]], where he is conducting research on [[gravitational radiation]]. ==Biography== Raymond Chiao was born in Hong Kong on Oct. 9, 1940, and moved as a child to the United States in 1947. He grew up in New York City, where he attended Collegiate School. It was there that he first got interested in science through reading Gamow’s book One, Two, Three, ..., Infinity. He was admitted to Princeton University in 1957 as an electrical engineer, but then switched to the physics department, where he worked on a senior thesis project given to him by [[John Archibald Wheeler]] on the quantization of general relativity. He then switched from theoretical physics to experimental physics in graduate studies at MIT under the supervision of [[Charles Hard Townes]], shortly after the experimental realization of the ruby laser. His thesis topic was on the first observation of stimulated [[Brillouin scattering]]. After obtaining his Ph. D. in 1965 from MIT, he taught as an assistant professor there until 1967. He moved to UC Berkeley in 1967, and remained there until 2006, after which he took a position at the UC's newly opened campus [[UC Merced]]. ==Discoveries== Chiao has become well known in the field of [[quantum optics]] due to several important experiments. Based on former experiments carried out by Günter Nimtz in 1992<ref>{{cite journal | year = 1992 | title = On superluminal barrier traversal | url = | journal = J. Phys. I France | volume = 2 | issue = 9| pages = 1693–1698 | doi = 10.1051/jp1:1992236 | last1 = Enders | first1 = A. | last2 = Nimtz | first2 = G. |bibcode = 1992JPhy1...2.1693E }}</ref> he measured the [[quantum tunnelling]] time, which was found to be between 1.5 to 1.7 times the speed of light. Interpretation of these results is open to question (see references below pertaining to tunneling time). He also was the first to measure the topological Berry's Phase ([[Geometric phase]]) . ==Current work== As of 2006, he accepted a faculty position at UC Merced and turned his full energy on the project of detecting gravitational waves through the use of superconductors. As of 2010 he became emeritus faculty but he continues to advise several PhD Students. ==References and external links== *[http://www.ucmerced.edu/faculty/facultybio.asp?facultyid=58 Chiao's UC Merced faculty bio page] *[http://faculty1.ucmerced.edu/rchiao Chiao's UC Merced web page] <references /> ;Tunnelling Time *http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/TunnelingTime.html *http://www.aei.mpg.de/~mpoessel/Physik/FTL/tunnelingftl.html Various *http://www.lambmedal.org/2006/2006-chiao.html *http://www.ucmerced.edu/news_articles/12142005_renowned_berkeley_physicist_raymond.asp ==Books== [http://books.google.com/books?id=1-nhz2Ek-X8C Quantum Optics] By John Garrison, Raymond Chiao </br> [http://books.google.com/books?id=U1RRAAAAMAAJ&q=amazing+light&dq=amazing+light&pgis=1 Amazing Light] By Raymond Chiao ==Publications== A.M. Steinberg and R. Y. Chiao Tunneling delay times in one and two dimensions Phys. Rev. A 49, 3283 - 3295 (1994) http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRA/v49/i5/p3283_1 A. Tomita and R.Y. Chiao Observation of Berry's Topological Phase by Use of an Optical Fiber Phys. Rev. Lett. 57, 937 - 940 (1986) http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v57/i8/p937_1 Steinberg, A.M., Kwiat, P.G. & R.Y. Chiao 1993: "Measurement of the Single-Photon Tunneling Time" in Physical Review Letter 71, S. 708--711 ==Media coverage== http://physicsworld.com/blog/2009/04/can_gravitional_waves_be_detec.html http://edition.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/07/20/speed.of.light.ap/ </br> http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0DE0D8123BF935A15750C0A9649C8B63 </br> http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0DE0D8123BF935A15750C0A9649C8B63 </br> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/examiner/article.cgi?year=1997&month=08&day=11&article=NEWS378.dtl </br> http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-philosophers-stone {{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. --> | NAME =Chiao, Raymond | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH =1940-10-09 | PLACE OF BIRTH =[Hong Kong] | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Chiao, Raymond}} [[Category:American physicists]] [[Category:Quantum physicists]] [[Category:Quantum gravity physicists]] [[Category:Optical physicists]] [[Category:University of California, Berkeley faculty]] [[Category:University of California, Merced faculty]] [[Category:Princeton University alumni]] [[Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni]] [[Category:American academics of Asian descent]] [[Category:American people of Chinese descent]] [[Category:Hong Kong people]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:1940 births]] [[de:Raymond Chiao]] [[es:Raymond Chiao]]'