Chen Ning Yang
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Yang. Chen-Ning Franklin Yang Born (1922-10-01) 1 October 1922 (age 92) Hefei, Anhui, China Residence China Citizenship ROC (1922 - ) USA (1964 - ) Fields Physics Institutions Institute for Advanced Study State University of New York at Stony Brook Chinese University of Hong Kong Tsinghua University University of Chicago Alma mater National Southwestern Associated University Tsinghua University University of 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 Known for Parity violation Yang–Mills theory Yang–Baxter equation Byers-Yang theorem Notable awards Nobel Prize in Physics (1957) Rumford Prize (1980) National Medal of Science (1986) Benjamin Franklin Medal (1993) Albert Einstein Medal (1995) Bogolyubov Prize (1996) Lars Onsager Prize (1999) Spouse Chi-Li Tu (1950–2003) Fan Weng (2004–present) Chen-Ning Yang Traditional Chinese 楊振寧 Simplified Chinese 杨振宁 Transcriptions Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Yáng Zhènníng Chen-Ning Franklin Yang (Mandarin pronunciation: [jɑ ŋ ts ʰə n nǐŋ]; born October 1, 1922), 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. The two proved experimentally[citation needed] that one of the basic quantum-mechanics laws, 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. Yang became a naturalized American citizen in 1964.