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Chen Ning Yang Biographical . C hen Ning Yang was born on September 22, 1922, in Hofei, Anwhei, China, the first of five children of Ke Chuan Yang and Meng Hwa Loh Yang. He is also known as Frank or Franklin.

BEIJING– Two top Chinese scientists, one a Nobel laureate and the other a winner of a top computer science prize, have renounced their U.S. citizenship to become citizens of China. The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) confirmed this week that Yang Chen Ning, 94, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957, and Andrew Yao (Yao Qizhi), 70 ...

At the age of 98, Yang Chen Ning has returned to the starting point of his life journey, completing a voyage of almost a century in what seems like the blink of an eye. In his poem Thoughts in the 90s, Yang wrote, “My life is full of hopes and devotion with goals, principles, and no regrets.”.

Chen Ning Yang. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1957. Born: 22 September 1922, Hofei, Anhwei, China. Affiliation at the time of the award: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA. Prize motivation: “for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles”.

Chen Ning Yang Albert Einstein Professor Emeritus Nobel Laureate in Physics Vitae; Biographical Sketch (Nobel Foundation) Biography of C.N. Yang by Bing-An Li and Yuefan Deng [translated from a Chinese article which first appeared in <<Biographies of Contemporary Chinese Scientists>> vol.3 (1992)]

Below is the article summary. For the full article, see Chen Ning Yang . Chen Ning Yang, known as Frank Yang, (born Sept. 22, 1922, Hofei, Anhwei, China), Chinese-born U.S. theoretical physicist. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1945 and studied with Edward Teller at the University of Chicago. He showed that parity is violated when elementary ...

Tsung Dao Lee (left) and Chen Ning Yang at a blackboard in an Institute office. The Institute for Advanced Study extends well wishes to former Mathematics/Natural Sciences Faculty member Chen Ning Yang on his 100th birthday. Yang first arrived at IAS in 1949, when then-Director J. Robert Oppenheimer welcomed a new class of young physicists to ...