Chen Ning Yang, one of the world's most renowned physicists and a Nobel Prize winner, died at 103 of illness in Beijing on October 18, state news outlet Xinhua said on Saturday.
“Yang is one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century, having made revolutionary contributions to the development of modern physics,” Tsinghua University, where he studied and served as a professor, said in a statement.
Chen Ning Yang, a world-renowned scientist and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics, died on Saturday in Beijing at the age of 103, Chinese state media said.
Chinese Nobel Prize-winning physicist Chen Ning Yang, one of the most influential scientists in modern physics, died in Beijing on Saturday. He was 103.
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese Nobel Prize-winning physicist Chen Ning Yang, one of the most influential scientists in modern physics, died in Beijing on Saturday. He was 103.
Chen Ning Yang was a Chinese-born American theoretical physicist who, with Tsung-Dao Lee, won the 1957 Nobel Prize for Physics for various studies in particle physics. Notably, the two men conducted research showing that parity is violated when certain elementary particles decay. Learn more...