Chen Ning Yang Biography, Age, Weight, Height, Friend, Like, Affairs, Favourite, Birthdate & Other

Benjamin Franklin Medal (1993) Albert Einstein Medal (1995) Bogolyubov Prize (1996) Lars Onsager Prize (1999)

Chen-Ning Franklin Yang is a China-born American physicist who jointly received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957 with another physicist Tsung-Dao Lee for their remarkable work on the violations of the principle of parity conservation. The duo became the first two Nobel Laureates from China. Yang’s area of work includes particle physics and statistical mechanics.

Yang and Lee conceptualised and theoretically established that conservation of parity – one of the basic laws of quantum-mechanics which was earlier considered by physicists to be universal as the law of conservation of electric charge, energy and momentum, is violated in the nuclear procedure that result in emitting alpha or beta particles, that is to say in weak nuclear reagents. This discovery led to important alterations and refinements in the field of particle physics. They suggested that tau-meson and theta-meson, which were earlier thought of to be different particles due to their decaying by modes of differing parity, are actually same (presently called K-meson).

Their theory was experimentally confirmed by fellow physicist Chien-Shiung Wu in 1957. Other significant contribution of Yang included development of Yang-Mills theory with Robert Mills that presently forms a major part of Standard Model in physics. His scientific contributions were recognised with several awards including National Medal of Science (1986),Benjamin Franklin Medal(1993) andAlbert Einstein Medal (1995) among many others.