Awards & Winners

Chen-Ning Yang

Date of Birth 1922
Place of Birth Hefei
(Anhui, China)
Nationality China, United States of America, Taiwan
Also know as Chen Ning Yang
Profession Physicist, Scientist
Chen-Ning Franklin Yang, also known as Yang Zhenning, is a Chinese-born American physicist who works on statistical mechanics and particle physics. He and Tsung-dao Lee received the 1957 Nobel prize in physics for their work on parity nonconservation of weak interaction, proved experimentally that one of the basic quantum-mechanics laws, called the conservation of parity, is violated in the so-called weak nuclear reactions, those nuclear processes that result in the emission of beta or alpha particles of nuclear's radioactivities reactions. Yang became a naturalized American citizen in 1964.

Awards by Chen-Ning Yang

Check all the awards nominated and won by Chen-Ning Yang.

1986


National Medal of Science for Physical Science
(For his pathbreaking research in theoretical physics, which he has influenced for many years by his profound questions and deep mathematical insight. His ideas have had great impact not only on theoretical developments but also on experiments in elementary particles and condensed matter.)

1980


Rumford Prize
(For development of a generalized gauge invariant field theory.)

1957


Nobel Prize in Physics
(for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles)