Chen-Ning Yang

Chen-Ning Franklin Yang
楊振寧
杨振宁
; Chen-Ning Franklin Yang; 楊振寧; 杨振宁
	Yang in 2005
Born	1 October 1922 (age 102); Hefei, Anhui Province, Cheenae
Naitionality	Fowkrepublic o Cheenae
Alma mater	Naitional Soothwastren Associatit Varsity; Tsinghua Varsity; Varsity o Chicago
Kent for	Landau–Yang theorem; Parity violation; Yang–Mills theory; Yang–Baxter equation; Byers-Yang theorem
Hauf-marrae(s)	Chih-Li Tu (1950–2003); Fan Weng (2004–present)
Awairds	Nobel Prize in Physics (1957); Rumford Prize (1980); Naitional Medal o Science (1986); Benjamin Franklin Medal (1993); Albert Einstein Medal (1995); Bogolyubov Prize (1996); Lars Onsager Prize (1999)
	Scientific career
Fields	Stateestical mechanics; Pairticle physics
Institutions	Stony Brook Varsity; Institute for Advanced Study; Cheenese Varsity o Hong Kong; Tsinghua Varsity; Varsity o Chicago
Doctoral advisor	Edward Teller
Other academic advisors	Enrico Fermi
Doctoral students	Bill Sutherland; Alexander Wu Chao (趙午); C. K. Lai (黎振球); Ed Yen (閻愛德); Ben Fan

Chen-Ning Franklin Yang, kent as Yang Zhenning (simplifeed Cheenese: 杨振宁; traditeeonal Cheenese: 楊振寧; pinyin: Yáng Zhènníng an aw; born October 1,^[1] 1922), is a Cheenese physicist wha wirks on stateestical mechanics an pairticle physics. He an Tsung-dao Lee received the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics^[2] for thair wirk on parity nonconservation o waik interaction.

Notes

↑ Yang wis naituralised ceetizen o the Unitit States frae 1964 tae 2015, when he gae up U.S. ceetizenship tae acome, again, a ceetizen o Cheenae

↑ ^a ^b Bing-An Li, Yuefan Deng. "Biography of C.N. Yang" (PDF). Retrieved 11 September 2007. His birth date was erroneously recorded as September 22, 1922 in his 1945 passport. He has since used this incorrect date on all subsequent official documents.
↑ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1957". The Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 1 November 2014.