BEIJING, Oct 18 — Chen Ning Yang, one of the world’s most renowned physicists and a Nobel Prize winner, died at 103 of illness in Beijing on October 18, state news outlet Xinhua said on Saturday.
Born in eastern China’s Hefei in Anhui province in 1922, Yang was a Chinese-American physicist who worked on statistical mechanics and symmetry principles in elementary particle physics.
Yang shared the 1957 Nobel Prize for physics with Tsung-Dao Lee. — Reuters
Chen Ning Yang, pioneer of particle physics and Nobel laureate, dies in Beijing at 103
