n.
known as Frank Yang
born Sept. 22, 1922, Hofei, Anhwei, China
Chinese-born U.S. theoretical physicist.
He immigrated to the U.S. in 1945 and studied with Edward Teller at the University of Chicago. He showed that parity is violated when elementary particles decay. This and other work in particle physics earned him and Tsung-Dao Lee (b. 1926) a 1957 Nobel Prize. His research focused mostly on interactions involving the weak force among elementary particle s. He also worked in statistical mechanics .