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Chen-ning Yang
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Chen-ning Yang

1922 – 2025 · aged 103

Chinese physicist (1922–2025)

Born
1 Oct 1922 · Hefei
Died
18 Oct 2025 · Beijing
Part ofChina1,046 BCE – todayTaiwan1661 – todayRepublic of China1859 – 1949

Life timeline

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Showing 118 years
  1. 1 Oct 1922BornBorn in Hefei
  2. 1957AwardNobel Prize in Physics
  3. 1962AwardGuggenheim Fellowship
  4. 1962AwardJosiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship
  5. 1980AwardRumford Prize
  6. 1984AwardHonorary doctor of the Fudan University
  7. 1986AwardNational Medal of Science
  8. 1988AwardOskar Klein Medal
  9. 1992AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
  10. 1992AwardDoctor honoris causa from the Pierre and Marie Curie University
  11. 1994AwardBower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science
  12. 1995AwardAlbert Einstein Medal
  13. 1999AwardLars Onsager Prize
  14. 18 Oct 2025DiedDied in Beijing

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1922 – 2025).

  1. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  2. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  3. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  4. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  5. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1938Munich Agreement
  7. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  8. 1939 – 1945World War II
  9. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  10. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  11. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  12. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  13. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  14. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  15. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  16. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  18. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  19. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  21. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  22. 1956Suez Crisis
  23. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  25. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  27. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  29. 1968Prague Spring
  30. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  31. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  32. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  33. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  35. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  36. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  37. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  38. 1985Schengen Agreement
  39. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  40. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall

Biography

Yang Chen-Ning (simplified Chinese: 杨振宁; traditional Chinese: 楊振寧; pinyin: Yáng Zhènníng; October 1, 1922 – October 18, 2025) also known as C.N. Yang and Franklin Yang, was a Chinese-American theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to statistical mechanics, integrable systems, gauge theory, particle physics and condensed matter physics.

Yang is known for his collaboration with Robert Mills in 1954 in developing non-abelian gauge theory, widely known as the Yang–Mills theory, which describes the nuclear forces in the Standard Model of particle physics.

Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee received the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on parity non-conservation of the weak interaction, which was confirmed by the Wu experiment in 1956. The two proposed that the conservation of parity, a physical law observed to hold in all other physical processes, is violated in weak nuclear reactions – those nuclear processes that result in the emission of beta particles.

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