Nobel Laureate Chen Ning Yang Dies at 103

Chen Ning Yang, a Chinese Nobel laureate and physicist, has died at the age of 103. Yang was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957 for his work on parity laws, which led to important discoveries regarding elementary particles. He was a prominent figure in the field of physics, working across various areas, including statistical mechanics and symmetry principles. Yang was born in 1922 in China's Anhui province and had a distinguished academic career, studying at Tsinghua University and the University of Chicago. He received numerous awards and honors, including the Albert Einstein Commemorative Award and an honorary doctorate from Princeton University.

Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Chen-ning Yang has died at the age of 103 in Beijing. Yang was known for his work on subatomic particles and was considered one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century, often ranked alongside Albert Einstein. In 1954, he co-authored the Yang-Mills theory with Robert Mills, which described how three of nature's four fundamental forces operate in the subatomic world and laid the mathematical foundation for the Standard Model of modern physics. Yang's contribution to science was described as 'close to Einstein'. He died of sickness, according to Xinhua, although no details were given.

Renowned Chinese-American physicist and Nobel laureate Chen Ning Yang has died in Beijing at the age of 103 after an illness. Yang was awarded the 1957 Nobel prize for physics along with Tsung-Dao Lee for their work on parity laws and symmetry principles in elementary particle physics. Born in 1922 in Hefei, Anhui province, China, Yang moved to the US after World War II and was associated with the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. He was influenced by Prof Enrico Fermi and made significant contributions to statistical mechanics and symmetry principles.