Quote of the day
Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it—but there is.
Chen-Ning Yang
Born: October 1, 1922
Died: October 18, 2025 (aged 103)
Bio: Chen-Ning Franklin Yang, also known as Yang Zhenning, was a Chinese-born American physicist who worked 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)







