Quote of the day
All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
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)