Renowned physicist and Nobel laureate Chen Ning Yang died in Beijing at 103. Born in 1922 in Hefei, China, Yang earned his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1948 and later worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and Stony Brook University, where he founded the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics.
Yang won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics with Tsung-Dao Lee for discovering parity nonconservation in weak interactions. He also co-developed the Yang-Mills gauge theory, a foundation of the Standard Model, and discovered the Yang-Baxter equation, impacting particle physics, statistical mechanics, and condensed matter physics.
He received numerous international honors and helped advance China’s science and education, fostering exchanges between Chinese and overseas scholars. After returning to China in 1999, he served at Tsinghua University, nurturing talent and strengthening basic sciences.
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