Chinese Nobel laureate and physicist Chen Ning Yang dies aged 103
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- #Nobel Prize
- Chen Ning Yang, Nobel laureate and influential physicist, dies at 103.
- Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957 for work on parity laws with Lee Tsung-Dao.
- Born in 1922 in Anhui, China; raised on Tsinghua University campus where his father taught.
- Achieved Nobel Prize at 35; studied at University of Chicago under Enrico Fermi.
- Had a prolific career in physics, focusing on statistical mechanics and symmetry principles.
- Married twice; first wife Chih Li Tu (d. 2003), second wife Weng Fan (married 2004).
- Received Albert Einstein Commemorative Award (1957) and honorary doctorate from Princeton (1958).