- Their discovery challenged long-held assumptions in quantum physics
- He won a Nobel Prize a dream he fulfilled at age 35
- He received the Albert Einstein Commemorative Award in 1957
Chen Ning Yang, a Nobel laureate and one of the most influential physicists of the 20th century, has died at the age of 103, Chinese state media confirmed his death.
Eko Hot Blog gathered that Yang and fellow physicist Lee Tsung Dao jointly won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957 for their groundbreaking research on parity laws, which reshaped understanding of elementary particles.
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Their discovery challenged long-held assumptions in quantum physics and marked a turning point in modern science.
Yang was a professor at Beijing’s Tsinghua University and served as the honorary dean of the university’s Institute for Advanced Study.
Born in 1922 in Anhui province, eastern China, Yang grew up on the Tsinghua University campus where his father was a mathematics professor.
As a teenager, he once told his parents that he would win a Nobel Prize one day—a dream he fulfilled at age 35.
After earning his science degree in 1942 from National Southwest Associated University and a master’s from Tsinghua, Yang moved to the United States on a fellowship.
He studied at the University of Chicago under Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, known for building the first nuclear reactor.
He received the Albert Einstein Commemorative Award in 1957 and an honorary doctorate from Princeton University the following year.
He later married Weng Fan, whom he called his “final blessing from God,” after reconnecting with her in 2004.
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