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Zijie Yan joined UNC's Department of Applied Physical Sciences in 2019 and was an associate professor there, using laser beams and optical tweezers to move nanoparticles in work on nanotechnology and nanomedicine. He died in the August 28, 2023 shooting at Caudill Labs on the Chapel Hill campus.
Source: UNC-Chapel Hill: Carolina remembers Zijie Yan, 'master of light and matter' (August 27, 2024)
1983–2023 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Memorial service program for Zijie Yan, a faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who died in 2023. A single folded sheet of four unnumbered pages with a color portrait, printed in Chapel Hill, the text in English with partial Chinese translation.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Yan, Zijie, 1983-2023.
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