Chen-ning Yang

Prize: Nobel Prize in Physics — 1957

for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles

Together with: Tsung-Dao Lee

Citizenship: Taiwan Republic of China United States People's Republic of China
Languages: Spanish, English, Catalan, Chinese, German
date of birth: 10/1/1922
place of birth: Hefei
date of death: 10/18/2025
place of death: Beijing
Lived: 103 years

educated at: National Southwestern Associated University

academic degree: Bachelor of Science

University of Chicago

academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
end time: 1948
start time: 1946

Tsinghua University

academic degree: Master of Science

Nankai University
Peking University
member of: National Academy of Sciences

start time: 1965
end time: 2015

Russian Academy of Sciences

start time: 1994
end time: 2025

Royal Society of London

start time: 1992
end time: 2025

Pontifical Academy of Sciences

start time: 1997
end time: 2025

Japan Academy

start time: 2/12/2010

National Academy of Sciences

start time: 2015
end time: 2025

Chinese Academy of Sciences

start time: 2017
end time: 2025

American Association for the Advancement of Science
The World Academy of Sciences
Academia Sinica
Committee of 100
Brazilian Academy of Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Physical Society
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Polish Academy of Sciences
employer: Tsinghua University
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
University of Chicago
Stony Brook University
Leiden University
Institute for Advanced Study
doctoral student: Alexander Wu Chao
Bill Sutherland
field of work: particle physics
occupation: physicist
university teacher
theoretical physicist

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