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Chen Ning Yang
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Chen-Ning Frank Yang 杨振宁 | |
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![]() Yang in 2005 | |
Born | Hefei, Anhui Province, China | 1 October 1922
Residence | Beijing |
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Nationality | Chinese |
Fields | Statistical mechanics Particle physics |
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Doctoral advisor | Edward Teller |
Other academic advisors | Enrico Fermi |
Doctoral students | Bill Sutherland |
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Chen Ning Yang | |||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 楊振寧 | ||||||
Simplified Chinese | 杨振宁 | ||||||
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Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1957)
- Rumford Prize (1980)
- National Medal of Science (1986)
- Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture and Medal (1988)
- Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences of the American Philosophical Society (1993)[4]
- Bower Award (1994)
- Albert Einstein Medal (1995)
- Lars Onsager Prize (1999)
- King Faisal International Prize (2001)
References
- ↑ Bing-An Li, Yuefan Deng. "Biography of C.N. Yang" (PDF). http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/~yang/yangbio.pdf. Retrieved 2007-09-11. "His birth date was erroneously recorded as September 22, 1922 in his 1945 passport. He has since used this incorrect date on all subsequent official documents."
- ↑ "Chen Ning Yang". NNDB / Soylent Communications. http://www.nndb.com/people/929/000035824/. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
- ↑ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1957". The Nobel Foundation. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1957/. Retrieved November 1, 2014.
- ↑ "Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences Recipients". American Philosophical Society. http://www.amphilsoc.org/prizes/franklinscience. Retrieved November 26, 2011.
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