Chen Ning Yang, known as Frank Yang, (born Sept. 22, 1922, Hofei, Anhwei, China), Chinese-born U.S. theoretical physicist. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1945 and studied with Edward Teller at the University of Chicago. He showed that parity is violated when elementary particles decay. This and other work in particle physics earned him and Tsung-Dao Lee (b. 1926) a 1957 Nobel Prize. His research focused mostly on interactions involving the weak force among elementary particles. He also worked in statistical mechanics.
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