I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part of human civilization of Western origin, to which I have dedicated and I shall continue to dedicate my work.
Chen Ning Yang Quotes
As I stand here today and tell you about these, I am heavy with an awareness of the fact that I am in more than one sense a product of both the Chinese and Western cultures, in harmony and in conflict.
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| Birth: | 1922 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Physicist |
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Chen Ning Yang was born in Hofei, Anwhei, China. He is a Chinese-born American physicist who works on statistical mechanics and particle physics. He and Tsung-dao Lee received the 1957 Nobel prize in physics for their work on parity nonconservation of weak interaction. He received his bachelor's degree in 1942. In 1944 he received his master's degree from Tsinghua University. From 1946, Yang studied with Edward Teller at the University of Chicago, where he received his doctorate in 1948. In 1963, Princeton University Press published his textbook, Elementary Particles. He was awarded honorary doctorate degrees by Princeton University, Moscow State University, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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