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Chen-ning Yang
Yang Chen-Ning also known as C.N. Yang and Franklin Yang, was a Chinese-American theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to statistical mechanics, integrable systems, gauge theory, particle physics and condensed matter physics.
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science · Chinese-American physicist (1922–2025) · physicist · university teacher · theoretical physicist · also Chen-ning Yang, Yang Chen-Ning, Yang Zhenning, Chen-Ning Franklin Yang, C. N. Yang, C.N. Yang
Born 1 October 1922 · Died 18 October 2025 · Q181369
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
Died 2025-10-18.
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2022· 1 entry
And died in Beijing on October 18, 2025, at the age of 103
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2020· 1 entry
Published “A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 22,158 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Awarded Marcel Grossmann Award (2015).
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2012· 1 entry
There were celebrations for Yang's 90th birthday
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Great Immigrants Award (2009).
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2003· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate from ENS (2003).
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded King Faisal International Prize in Science (2001).
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1999· 3 entries
Awarded Lars Onsager Prize (1999).
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Published “Antioxidant activity applying an improved ABTS radical cation decolorization assay” in Free Radical Biology and Medicine — cited 21,415 times.
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Freeman Dyson called Yang "the pre-eminent stylist" of 20th-century physics alongside Albert Einstein and Paul Dirac, citing how Yang "turns his least important calculations into miniature works of art, and turns his dee
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1998· 1 entry
After his retirement, the Institute of Theoretical Physics of Stony Brook University was renamed C
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1995· 2 entries
Won Albert Einstein Medal (1995).
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At a physics seminar; the couple reestablished contact in February 2004 when Yang moved to China to become affiliated with Tsinghua University
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science (1994).
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1992· 2 entries
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1992).
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Awarded doctor honoris causa from the Pierre and Marie Curie University (1992).
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1988· 2 entries
Won Oskar Klein Medal (1988).
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Published “Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density” in Physical Review B — cited 95,903 times.
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1986· 2 entries
Won National Medal of Science (1986).
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At the request of Shiing-Shen Chern who was serving as the inaugural director of the Institute at the time
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the Fudan University (1984).
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1980· 2 entries
Awarded Rumford Prize (1980).
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November 1, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD USA
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1971· 1 entry
For the first time after the thaw in China–US relations, and subsequently worked to help the Chinese physics community rebuild the research atmosphere, which later eroded due to political movements during the Cultural Re
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1965· 1 entry
Moved to Stony Brook University, where he was named the Albert Einstein Professor of Physics and the first director of the newly founded Institute for Theoretical Physics
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1963· 1 entry
Princeton University Press published his textbook, Elementary Particles
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1962· 2 entries
Awarded Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (1962).
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Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1962).
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1957· 1 entry
Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1957).
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1955· 1 entry
The first foreign-to-domestic member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Academia Sinica in 1958, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Society
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1954· 1 entry
In developing non-abelian gauge theory, widely known as the Yang–Mills theory, which describes the nuclear forces in the Standard Model of particle physics
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1949· 1 entry
Was invited to do his research at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, where he began a period of fruitful collaboration with Tsung-Dao Lee
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1948· 1 entry
Studied at University of Chicago, Doctor of Philosophy (1946–1948).
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1944· 1 entry
Received a Master of Science from National Tsing Hua University, which had moved to Kunming during the Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
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1942· 1 entry
With his thesis on the application of group theory to molecular spectra, under the supervision of Ta-You Wu
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1938· 1 entry
Moved to Kunming, Yunnan, where National Southwestern Associated University was located
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1922· 1 entry
Born 1922-10-01.
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