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Yang Chen-Ning or Yang Zhenning (Chinese: 楊振寧; born October 1,[1] 1922) 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[2] for their work on parity nonconservation of weak interaction. The two proposed that one of the basic quantum-mechanics laws, the conservation of parity, 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.
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楊振寧 (Yáng Zhènníng) | |||||||||
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Born | (1922-10-01) 1 October 1922 (age 101)[1] | ||||||||
Nationality | Chinese | ||||||||
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Chih-Li Tu (杜致禮)
(m. 1950; "her death" is deprecated; use "died" instead. 2003)Weng Fan (翁帆) (m. 2004) | ||||||||
Children | 3 | ||||||||
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Doctoral advisor | Edward Teller | ||||||||
Other academic advisors | Enrico Fermi | ||||||||
Doctoral students | Bill Sutherland | ||||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 杨振宁 | ||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 楊振寧 | ||||||||
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