Ta-Pei Cheng

Ta-Pei Cheng is a particle physics theorist. (Homepage, https://www.tapeicheng.com/) Born in Shanghai, he moved to the U.S., via Hong Kong, in 1960. A graduate of Dartmouth College, he received a PhD from Rockefeller University and did post-doc research at IAS (Princeton). He is now retired (as a Professor Emeritus) from the University of Missouri - St. Louis and living in Portland, Oregon. He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1982. Besides having published some highly cited research papers, he is the co-author (with Ling-Fong Li) of the book "Gauge Theory of Elementary Particle Physics" (Oxford, 1984), which was among the first graduate quantum field theory text on the Standard Model of particle physics. Professor Cheng is also the author of "Relativity, Gravitation, and Cosmology: A basic introduction" (2nd ed. 2010). His 2013 book "Einstein's Physics" introduces Einstein's work to a general readership having an introductory physics background.