Chen Ning Yang, Chinese-American physicist and Nobel laureate, dies at 103

"Chen Ning Yang, one of the world's most renowned physicists and a Nobel prize winner, died on Saturday in Beijing at the age of 103 after an illness, state media outlet Xinhua has reported. Born in eastern China's Hefei in Anhui province in 1922, Yang was a Chinese-American physicist who worked on statistical mechanics and symmetry principles in elementary particle physics."

"Yang was brought up in the atmosphere of the campus of Tsinghua University, outside Beijing, where his father was a professor of mathematics, according to biographical detail on the Nobel prize website. After completing his undergraduate and a master of science at Chinese universities, he moved to the US at the end of the second world war on a fellowship at the University of Chicago."

Chen Ning Yang was born in Hefei, Anhui in 1922 and died in Beijing at age 103 after an illness. He was a Chinese-American physicist known for work in statistical mechanics and symmetry principles in elementary particle physics. Yang shared the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics with Tsung-Dao Lee for demonstrating parity violation, overturning the belief in mirror symmetry of fundamental particle interactions. Yang was raised on the Tsinghua University campus where his father taught mathematics. He completed undergraduate and master's degrees in China, moved to the US after World War II to study at the University of Chicago, and joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1949, becoming a professor in 1955.

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