Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Chen-Ning Yang
Born: October 1, 1922 (age 102)
Bio: Chen-Ning Franklin Yang, also known as Yang Zhenning, is a Chinese-born American physicist who works on statistical mechanics and particle physics. He and Tsung-dao Lee received the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on parity nonconservation of weak interaction.
Known for:
- Selected papers (1945-1980), with commentary (1983)
- Elementary particles (1961)
- Selected Papers II, with Commentaries (2013)