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In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?
Chen-Ning Yang
Born: October 1, 1922 (age 103)
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)