Chung Liang Tang

Chung Liang Tang (; 14 May 1934 – 31 May 2022) was a Chinese-born American applied physicist.

Tang was born in China, and moved to avoid hostilities in the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Communist Revolution, making his way to San Francisco via Taiwan in 1950. He completed a bachelor's degree from the University of Washington (1955), a master's of science degree from Caltech (1956), and a doctorate at Harvard University (1960), then pursued postdoctoral research at RWTH Aachen University. Tang retired from Cornell in 2008. the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 1977, He was the 1996 recipient of the OSA's Charles Hard Townes Award, recognized "for seminal and pioneering advances in the field of nonlinear optics and laser physics".

Tang was married to Louise, a mathematics instructor at Ithaca College. He died on 31 May 2022, aged 88.