YANG, CHEN NING


Meaning of YANG, CHEN NING in English

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 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 {{link=statistical mechanics">statistical mechanics .

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