Chen Ning Yang
1922-
Chinese-American physicist who, with Tsung Dao Lee, showed that parity need not always be conserved in some nuclear reactions. For this, he was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in phy...
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The Chinese-born American physicist Chen Ning Yang (born 1922) codiscovered the nonconservation of parity in weak interactions.Academically inclined from childhood Chen Yang was born September 22, 192...
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Chen Ning Yang was born in the city of Hofei, in Anhwei province, China, on September 22, 1922, to Ke Chuan Yang and the former Meng Hwa Loh. When Yang finished high school, he entered the National So...
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