Quote of the day
It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for if he reiterates it frequently enough and makes it the background of his conduct he is bound eventually to be right.
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)







