C. N. Yang

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Nobel laureate in Physics human physicist theoretical physicist

C. N. Yang is a Chinese-American theoretical physicist renowned for his work on gauge theory and the Yang–Mills theory, which profoundly shaped modern particle physics.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Nobel laureate in Physics → human → physicist → theoretical physicist →
academicAdvisor	Enrico Fermi →
awardReceived	Albert Einstein Medal → Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics → Dirac Medal → Max Planck Medal → National Medal of Science → Nobel Prize in Physics →
citizenship	China → United States of America →
countryOfBirth	China →
dateOfBirth	1922-10-01 →
educatedAt	National Southwestern Associated University → Tsinghua University → University of Chicago →
employer	Brookhaven National Laboratory → Institute for Advanced Study → Stony Brook University →
ethnicGroup	Chinese →
familyName	Yang →
fieldOfWork	gauge theory → particle physics → statistical mechanics → theoretical physics →
givenName	Chen-Ning →
hasHonoraryDegreeFrom	Chinese University of Hong Kong → Princeton University → University of Chicago →
influenced	Standard Model of particle physics → modern gauge field theory →
knownFor	Yang monopole → Yang–Baxter equation → Yang–Lee theory → Yang–Mills theory → Yang–Yang equation → gauge theory → parity violation in weak interactions →
memberOf	Chinese Academy of Sciences → Royal Society → US National Academy of Sciences →
name	C. N. Yang → Chen-Ning Yang → Yang Chen-Ning →
NobelPrizeField	Physics →
NobelPrizeMotivation	for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles →
NobelPrizeYear	1957 →
placeOfBirth	Hefei →
positionHeld	director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook University → professor at Stony Brook University →
residence	China → United States of America →
sharedNobelPrizeWith	Tsung-Dao Lee →

Referenced by (9)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
C. N. Yang ("Chen-Ning Yang") → C. N. Yang ("Yang Chen-Ning") → C. N. Yang →	name
Chien-Shiung Wu ("Chen-Ning Yang") →	collaboratedWith
Brookhaven National Laboratory ("Chen-Ning Yang") →	employerOf
C. N. Yang ("Chen-Ning") →	givenName
Tsinghua University ("Chen-Ning Yang") →	hasNotableAlumni
Comstock Prize in Physics ("Chen Ning Yang") →	notableRecipient
Institute for Advanced Study →	notableScholar