Yang Chen-Ning's Life and Contributions

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What significant theory did Yang Chen-Ning propose in 1954?

Quantum Field Theory
String Theory
Yang-Mills Theory (correct)
Particle Interaction Theory

Yang Chen-Ning received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his research on the conservation of energy.

False (B)

Who was Yang Chen-Ning's partner in proposing the challenge to the law of conservation of parity?

Tsung-Dao Lee

In 1965, Yang Chen-Ning became the director of the theoretical physics research center at ________ University.

<p>Stony Brook</p> Signup and view all the answers

Match the year with the event in Yang Chen-Ning's life:

<p>1949 = Moves to Princeton to study subatomic decay 1956 = Challenges the conservation of parity 1957 = Receives the Nobel Prize in Physics 1946 = Leaves China for a scholarship in the US</p> Signup and view all the answers

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Yang Chen-Ning's Early Life and Career

Yang Chen-Ning, a theoretical physicist, was born in 1922.
He emigrated from China to the United States in 1946 on a scholarship to study physics at the University of Chicago.
Yang moved to Princeton University to study subatomic decay in 1949.

Key Research Contributions

In 1954, Yang partnered with Robert Mills to create the Yang-Mills theory on elementary particles.
In 1956, Yang and his partner, Tsung-Dao Lee, published a revolutionary paper proposing that the law of conservation of parity is invalid in weak interactions.
This proposition was proven correct by Chien-Shiung Wu's experiment.

Key Milestones

Yang and Lee's seminal paper was published in 1956.
For this groundbreaking research, Yang was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957.
In 1965, Yang became director of the theoretical physics research center at Stony Brook University.