He is a Nobel Prize winning Chinese-American physicist and mathematician, who works on statistical mechanics and particle physics. His contributions are wide-ranging and impressive. He has published over 200 papers) but he is best known for the Yang-Mills theory, the Yang-Baxter equation, and parity nonconservation.
(1922 – )
– Chen Ning Yang Quotes –
The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China.
~ Chen Ning Yang
In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within.
~ Chen Ning Yang
I was later to receive an excellent first two years’ graduate education in the same University and then again was able to pursue my studies in the U.S. on a fellowship from the aforementioned fund.
~ Chen Ning Yang
In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.
~ Chen Ning Yang
I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part of human civilization of Western origin, to which I have dedicated and I shall continue to dedicate my work.
~ Chen Ning Yang
As I stand here today and tell you about these, I am heavy with an awareness of the fact that I am in more than one sense a product of both the Chinese and Western cultures, in harmony and in conflict.
~ Chen Ning Yang
Nature seems to take advantage of the simple mathematical representations of the symmetry laws. When one pauses to consider the elegance and the beautiful perfection of the mathematical reasoning involved and contrast it with the complex and far-reaching physical consequences, a deep sense of respect for the power of the symmetry laws never fails to develop.
~ Chen Ning Yang
Over the next four years, I will continue to listen to different views and accept different suggestions.
~ Chen Ning Yang
