T.S. Ke (Ge Tingsui)

Biography: T.S. Ke (Ge Tingsui) is a professor and honorary director of the Institute of Solid-State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He earned his B.S. in physics at Tsing Hua University, China, in 1937, his M.S. in physics at Yenching University, China, in 1940, and his Ph.D. in physics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1943. During his career, he has been a staff member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a research associate at the University of Chicago, a visiting professor at the Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung, and guest professor at INSA de Lyon. He is the inventor of the Ke type torion pendulum and discoverer of the Ke grain-boundary internal friction peak. He also proposed the Ke grain-boundary model of disordered atomic groups. Dr. Ke has received several honors and awards, including citations for his participation in the Manhattan Project and the Long-Range Radar Project. He has published more than 240 papers.