Chen-Ning Yang

Chen-Ning Franklin Yang, kent as Yang Zhenning (simplifeed Cheenese: 杨振宁; traditeeonal Cheenese: 楊振寧; pinyin: Yáng Zhènníng an aw; born October 1,^[1] 1922; deed October 18, 2025), wis a Cheenese physicist wha wirks on stateestical mechanics an pairticle physics. He an Tsung-dao Lee received the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics^[2] for thair wirk on parity nonconservation o waik interaction. At the time of his daith, he wis the seicont-langest lived (an langest-lived male) Nobel Prize winner, ahint Rita Levi-Montalcini.

Chen-Ning Franklin Yang 楊振寧 杨振宁
Yang in 2005
Born	1 October 1922(1922-10-01)[1] Hefei, Anhui Province, Cheenae
Residence	18 October 2025 (aged 103)
Naitionality	Fowkrepublic o Cheenae[a]
Alma mater	Naitional Soothwastren Associatit Varsity Tsinghua Varsity Varsity o Chicago
Kent for	Landau–Yang theorem Parity violation Yang–Mills theory Yang–Baxter equation Byers-Yang theorem
Hauf-marrae(s)	Chih-Li Tu (1950–2003) Fan Weng (2004–present)
Awairds	Nobel Prize in Physics (1957) Rumford Prize (1980) Naitional Medal o Science (1986) Benjamin Franklin Medal (1993) Albert Einstein Medal (1995) Bogolyubov Prize (1996) Lars Onsager Prize (1999)
Scientific career
Fields	Stateestical mechanics Pairticle physics
Institutions	Stony Brook Varsity Institute for Advanced Study Cheenese Varsity o Hong Kong Tsinghua Varsity Varsity o Chicago
Doctoral advisor	Edward Teller
Other academic advisors	Enrico Fermi
Doctoral students	Bill Sutherland Alexander Wu Chao (趙午) C. K. Lai (黎振球) Ed Yen (閻愛德) Ben Fan

This is a Cheenese name; the faimlie name is Yang.

Chen-Ning Yang
Traditional Chinese	楊振寧
Simplified Chinese	杨振宁
Transcriptions Staundart Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Yáng Zhènníng

Notes

1. Yang wis naituralised ceetizen o the Unitit States frae 1964 tae 2015, when he gae up U.S. ceetizenship tae acome, again, a ceetizen o Cheenae