Low Temperature Physics, Pioneer of Chinese Low Temperature Physics and Cryogenics—In Memory of Prof. Dr. Chaosheng Hong (C.S. Hung)

Prof. Dr. Chaosheng Hong (C.S. Hung)

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is dedicated to the memory of our colleague and friend Prof. Dr. Chaosheng Hong (C.S. Hung), who was born in 1920 and passed away in 2018. He obtained his PhD from the MIT in 1948 and then worked at Purdue University and at Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory. He measured the anomalous resistivity and Hall effect of impure semiconductors (germanium) at low temperature in 1950 and published the meaningful paper “Resistivity and Hall effect of germanium at low temperatures” in 1954, in which he proposed the phenomenological model of electronic conduction via the impurity states in the forbidden band. This paper is considered to be a pioneering work of electronic transport mechanisms in disordered systems. On the basis of Hung’s discovery, the theory of Anderson Localization was established in 1958. Anderson and Mott shared the 1977 Nobel Physics Prize with John H. Van Vleck for their theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems. Fritzsche, supervised by Hung, won the 1989 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Award.

Since 1951, he founded the first cryogenic laboratory in China and became a pioneer of low temperature physics and cryogenics. Prof. Dr. Hong has given fundamental contributions to low temperature physics, applied superconductivity, space technology, gas industry, cryogenic materials, and cryobiology. Prof. Dr. Hong was recognized with a number of awards, such as being awarded the Academician in the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1980), the Mendelssohn Award (2000), and the Samuel. C. Collins Award (2011). 

This Special Issue will include original papers, short communications, and review papers on subjects related to the research fields where Prof. Dr. Hong has been active, mainly low temperature physics, applied superconductivity, space technology, gas industry, cryogenic materials, and cryobiology.

All these research subjects are still very active subjects of the current research in physics and cryogenic technology.

Prof. Dr. Laifeng Li
Prof. Dr. Chuanjun Huang
Dr. Feng Feng
Guest Editors

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