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Yang Chen-Ning

1922 - Today

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Yang Chen-Ning or Chen-Ning Yang (simplified Chinese: 杨振宁; traditional Chinese: 楊振寧; pinyin: Yáng Zhènníng; born 1 October 1922), also known as C. N. Yang or by the English name Frank Yang, is a Chinese theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to statistical mechanics, integrable systems, gauge theory, and both particle physics and condensed matter physics. He and Tsung-Dao Lee received the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on parity non-conservation of weak interaction. The two proposed that the conservation of parity, a physical law observed to hold in all other physical processes, is violated in the so-called weak nuclear reactions, those nuclear processes that result in the emission of beta or alpha particles. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yang Chen-Ning has received more than 519,004 page views. His biography is available in 76 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). Yang Chen-Ning is the 163rd most popular physicist (up from 189th in 2019), the 158th most popular biography from China (up from 196th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Chinese Physicist.

Yang Chen-ning was a Chinese physicist who was most famous for the Yang-Mills theory.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Yang Chen-Ning ranks 163 out of 851. Before him are Hugh Everett III, Henry Moseley, Nicolaas Bloembergen, Klaus Fuchs, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, and Louis Néel. After him are Kai Siegbahn, Zhores Alferov, Igor Kurchatov, Gerd Binnig, Joseph Rotblat, and Melvin Schwartz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Yang Chen-Ning ranks 31. Before him are Vittorio Gassman, Alain Resnais, Christiaan Barnard, Miguel Muñoz, Stanley Cohen, and Renata Tebaldi. After him are Alain Robbe-Grillet, Telly Savalas, Otto Carius, Hans Georg Dehmelt, Iannis Xenakis, and Nándor Hidegkuti.

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In China

Among people born in China, Yang Chen-Ning ranks 158 out of 1,610. Before him are Huo Yuanjia (1868), Emperor Ruizong of Tang (662), Emperor Wen of Han (-202), Khorloogiin Choibalsan (1895), Huineng (638), and Shen Kuo (1031). After him are Liu Shan (207), Su Shi (1037), Wang Wei (699), Sun Bin (-401), Tsung-Dao Lee (1926), and Wu Sangui (1612).

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Among PHYSICISTS In China

Among physicists born in China, Yang Chen-Ning ranks 2. Before him are Walter Houser Brattain (1902). After him are Tsung-Dao Lee (1926), Chien-Shiung Wu (1912), Qian Xuesen (1911), Daniel C. Tsui (1939), and He Jiankui (1984).

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