The Asian Scientist 100
Yang Chen-Ning
Institution
Tsinghua University
Country
China
Field
Physics
Yang was awarded the 2019 Qiu Shi Lifetime Achievement Award for his lifetime contributions to theoretical physics. Yang received the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on parity nonconservation of weak interactions. (Photo: Chinese University of Hong Kong)
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