Physicist who with 李政道 won the 1957 Nobel Prize for showing that parity is not conserved in weak interactions; the two were the first Chinese Nobel laureates. His Yang-Mills theory underlies particle physics.
Yáng Zhènníng shì dìyī wèi huòdé Nuòbèi'ěrjiǎng de huárén.
Yang Chen-Ning was the first ethnic Chinese to win a Nobel Prize.
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His given name pairs the generation character 振 with the 宁 of 怀宁, the old name of Anqing, where his father was teaching. His early lab work in America went so badly that he was nicknamed 爆炸杨, 'Explosion Yang', and he turned to theory.
