Chen-ning Yang is remembered in science for work that changed what came after it.
The record lists Chen-ning Yang as Chinese physicist (1922–2025).
Chen-ning Yang was born at Hefei in 1922. His recorded nationality is People's Republic of China. He was educated at Tsinghua University and University of Chicago.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
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His affiliations include Tsinghua University, Institute for Advanced Study and The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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His recorded fields of work are particle physics.
The honours are a fair index of how the work was received - Nobel Prize in Physics (1957).
Working from People's Republic of China shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Chen-ning Yang died in 2025 at the age of 103. The work outlived the arguments around it.
Achievements
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 1957
- Affiliated with Tsinghua University, Institute for Advanced Study and The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Educated at Tsinghua University, University of Chicago and Peking University
- Worked as physicist, university teacher and theoretical physicist
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