Yang Chen-Ning

Yang Chen-Ning
楊振寧
Yang in 1957
Born
Yang Chen-Ning (楊振寧)

(1922-10-01) 1 October 1922
Alma mater
Known for
Spouses
  • Tu Chih-Li (杜致禮)
    (m. 1950; died 2003)
  • Weng Fan (翁帆)
    (m. 2005)
Children3
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Doctoral advisorEdward Teller
Other academic advisorsEnrico Fermi
Doctoral students
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese杨振宁
Traditional Chinese楊振寧
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinYáng Zhènníng
Wade–GilesYang2 Chên4-ning2
IPA[jǎŋ ʈʂə̂n.nǐŋ]
Signature

Yang Chen-Ning or Chen-Ning Yang (simplified Chinese: 杨振宁; traditional Chinese: 楊振寧; pinyin: Yáng Zhènníng; born 1 October 1922), also known as C. N. Yang or by the English name Frank Yang, is a Chinese theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to statistical mechanics, integrable systems, gauge theory, and both particle physics and condensed matter physics. He and Tsung-Dao Lee received the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on parity non-conservation of weak interaction. The two proposed that the conservation of parity, a physical law observed to hold in all other physical processes, is violated in the so-called weak nuclear reactions, those nuclear processes that result in the emission of beta or alpha particles. Yang is also well known for his collaboration with Robert Mills in developing non-abelian gauge theory, widely known as the Yang–Mills theory.