Chung Liang Tang ( Chinese: 湯仲良; 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. ^[1] 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), ^{[1] [2] [3]} then pursued postdoctoral research at RWTH Aachen University. ^{[1] [4]}

Tang worked for Raytheon from 1960 to 1964, ^{[2] [5]} then joined the Cornell University faculty as an associate professor. ^[1] He was promoted to a full professorship in 1968, ^[2] and subsequently appointed the Spencer T. Olin Professor of Engineering in 1985. ^{[2] [6]} Tang retired from Cornell in 2008. ^{[1] [4]}

Tang was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1975, ^[7] the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 1977, ^[1] the Optical Society of America in 1986, ^[3] and a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering and of Academia Sinica in 1986 and 1994, respectively. ^{[2] [5]} 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". ^[8]

Tang was married to Louise, a mathematics instructor at Ithaca College. ^{[4] [9]} He died on 31 May 2022, aged 88. ^{[1] [4] [6]}

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