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Sugar Nobel Prize-winning physicist Chen Ning Yang, one of the most influential scientists in modern physics, passes away Beijing On Saturday. He was 103 years old.
The prestigious Tsinghua University, where he studied and worked as a professor, said in a statement that Yang died of an illness, without sharing further details.
Praising his contributions to China’s scientific and educational development, the statement said, “Professor Yang is one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century, who has made revolutionary contributions to the development of modern physics.”
who won nobel prize With Tsung-Dao Lee in 1957 for investigating the so-called parity laws, making “important discoveries regarding elementary particles”, according to the Nobel Prize website. He was the first Chinese-born Nobel Prize winner in Physics.
In his speech at the Nobel banquet at that time, he said that he was as proud of his Chinese heritage as he was dedicated to modern science, which is a part of human civilization of Western origin.
“I am conscious of the fact that I am, in more senses than one, a product of both Chinese and Western cultures, in harmony and in conflict,” he said, according to his speech shared on the Nobel Prize website.
Yang, also known as Frank or Franklin, was also famous for his developed Yang–Mills theory American Physicist Robert Mills.
Born in 1922, Yang grew up on the Tsinghua campus, where his father was a mathematics professor, according to the website. After completing his bachelor’s degree, he received his master’s degree from Tsinghua.
According to the website, he enrolled at the University of Chicago in the United States for doctoral studies in 1946 and was greatly influenced by Enrico Fermi, the Italian-American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1938. He later became a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.
In 1986, he became a distinguished professor-at-large at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, to which he generously donated many of his awards and articles, including the Nobel Prize. Since 1999 he served as a professor at Tsinghua.
According to a 2017 report by China’s government news agency by XinhuaYang obtained American citizenship. He said at the time that it was a painful decision, for which his father had not forgiven him. The report said he renounced his US citizenship in 2015, saying it was a beautiful country that gave him good opportunities to study science.
The Nobel Prize website said Yang had three children.