The Asian Scientist 100
Yang Chen Ning
Honorary Director and Professor
Institution
Tsinghua University
Country
China
Field
Physics
Yang received a 2015 Marcel Grossman Award for deepening Einstein’s geometrical approach to physics in the best tradition of Paul Dirac and Hermann Weyl.
(Photo: Chinese University of Hong Kong)
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