Chen Ning Yang (1922- )

Awarded the Prize “for penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles.”

American physicist. Chen Ning Yang was born on September 22, 1922 in Hofei, Anwhei, China. He received his college education at the National Southwest Associated University in Kunming, China, completed his B.Sc. degree there in 1942. His M.Sc. degree was received in 1944 from Tsinghua University. He entered the University of Chicago in 1946. After receiving his Ph.D. degree in 1948, Yang served for a year at the University of Chicago as an Instructor. He has been associated with the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, where he became Professor in 1955. He was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society the Academia Sinica.