Nobel Laureate Physicist Yang Chen-Ning Dies at 103
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Yang Chen-Ning, China's first Nobel laureate and world-renowned physicist, has died at age 103 in Beijing. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957 together with Tsung-dao Lee for their theory of parity non-conservation in weak interactions. Yang was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, professor at Tsinghua University, and honorary president of the Institute for Advanced Study at Tsinghua.
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Together with his colleague Tsung-dao Lee, Yang was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957 for their theory of parity non-conservation in weak interactions.
Yang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, professor at Tsinghua University, and the honorary president of the Institute for Advanced Study at Tsinghua, died after an illness.
The university said in an obituary, calling the late professor 'immortal'.
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