http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1957/yang-bio.html
Chen Ning Yang was born on September 22, 1922, in Hofei, Anwhei, China, the first of five children of Ke Chuan Yang and Meng Hwa Loh Yang. He is also known as Frank or Franklin.
Yang was brought up in the peaceful and academically inclined atmosphere of the campus of Tsinghua University, just outside of Peiping, China, where his father was a Professor of Mathematics. He received his college education at the National Southwest Associated University in Kunming, China, and completed his B.Sc. degree there in 1942. His M.Sc. degree was received in 1944 from Tsinghua University, which had moved to Kunming during the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). He went to the U.S.A. at the end of the war on a Tsinghua University Fellowship, and entered the University of Chicago in January 1946. At Chicago he came under the strong influence of Professor E. Fermi. After receiving his Ph.D. degree in 1948, Yang served for a year at the University of Chicago as an Instructor. He has been associated with the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A., since 1949, where he became a Professor in 1955.
Yang has worked on various subjects in physics, but has his chief interest in two fields: statistical mechanics and symmetry principles. His B.Sc. thesis: "Group Theory and Molecular Spectra", written under the guidance of Professor Ta-You Wu, his M.Sc. thesis: "Contributions to the Statistical Theory of Order-Disorder Transformations", written under the guidance of Professor J.S. Wang, and his Ph.D. thesis: "On the Angular Distribution in Nuclear Reactions and Coincidence Measurements", written under the guidance of Professor E. Teller, were instrumental in introducing him to these fields.
Dr. Yang is a prolific author, his numerous articles appearing in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, The Physical Review, Reviews of Modern Physics, and the Chinese Journal of Physics.
Professor Yang has been elected Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Academia Sinica, and honoured with the Albert Einstein Commemorative Award (1957). The U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce named him one of the outstanding young men of 1957. He was also awarded an honorary doctorate of the Princeton University, N.J. (1958).
In 1950 Yang married Chih Li Tu and is now the father of three children: Franklin, born 1951; Gilbert, born 1958; and Eulee, born 1961.
Dr. Yang is a quiet, modest, and affable physicist; he met his wife Chih Li Tu while teaching mathematics at her high school in China. He is a hard worker allowing himself very little leisure time.
From Nobel Lectures, Physics 1942-1962.
Chen Ning Yang
http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/~yang/Vitae.html
Date of Birth: September 22, 1922
Place of Birth: Hefei, Anwhei, China
Citizenship: United States
Present positions:
Albert Einstein Professor of Physics
State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
1966 to 1999, Emeritus 1999 -
Distinguished Professor-at-large,
Chinese University of Hong Kong
1986 -
Professor
Tsinghua University, Beijing, PRC
1998 -
Awards:
Nobel Prize - 1957
Rumford Premium - 1980
National Medal of Science - 1986
Benjamin Franklin Medal - 1993
Bower Award - 1994
N. Bogoliubov Prize - 1996
Lars Onsager Prize - 1999
King Faisal International Prize - 2001
Honorary Degrees:
Princeton University - 1958
Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute - 1965
University of Wroclaw, Poland - 1974
Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota - 1975
University of Maryland - 1979
University of Durham, England - 1979
Fudan University, China - 1984
Eidg. Technische Hochschule (ETH, Switzerland - 1987)
Moscow State University - 1992
Drexel University - 1995
Tsing Hua University, Taiwan - 1996
Chiao Tung University, Taiwan - 1996
Chinese University, Hong Kong - 1997
University of Michigan - 1998
State University of New York, Stony Brook - 1999
Washington College - 1999
Baptist University, Hong Kong - 1999
Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan - 2000
Membership/Foreign Membership in:
U. S. Academy of Sciences
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
Russian Academy of Sciences
Royal Society (London)
American Philosophical Society
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Brazilian Academy of Sciences
Venezuelan Academy of Sciences
Polish Academy of Sciences
Royal Spanish Academy of Science
Korean Academy of Science and Technology
Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Chairman of:
Panel of Theoretical Physics, Physics Survey Committee, National
Academy of Sciences - 1965
Div. of Particles and Fields of the International Union of Pure
and Applied Physics - 1972-76
Div. of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society - 1970-71
Fachbeirat of the Max Planck Institute of Physics, Munich - 1980-83
President of:
National Association of Chinese Americans (NACA) - 1977-1980
Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies - 1989-1994
Asia Pacific Center of Theoretical Physics (APCTP) - 1996-
Member of:
Governing Council of the Courant Inst. of Mathematical Science - 1963-
Science Advisory Committee of IBM - 1966-1971
High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP) - 1968-1970
Board of Trustees of Rockefeller University - 1970-1976
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - 1962-1978
Board of Trustees of Ben Gurion University - 1981-
Board of Directors of the AAAS - 1975-1979
Board of Trustees of the Salk Institute - 1978-1989
Board of Directors of the Neuroscience Institute - 1983-1988
Board of Directors of the Scientific American Inc. - 1983-1990
Council of Scholars The Library of Congress - 1990-
Board of Trustees, Stony Brook Foundation - 1981-1999
Board of Trustees, Brookhaven Science Associates - 1998-1999
Lectureships:
Gibbs Lecturer, American Mathematical Society
Loeb Lecturer, Harvard University (1957, 1972 and 1997)
Vanuxem Lecturer, Princeton University
Lincoln Lecturer, Bd. of Foreign Scholars (Fulbright Bd.) of the State Dept.
Pauli Lecturer, ETH, Zurich
Courant Lecturer, New York University
Fermi Lecturer, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Oppenheimer Memorial Lecturer, Los Alamos
Lorentz Professor, Leiden
Klein Memorial Lectures, Stockholm
Ta-You Wu Lecturer, University of Michigan
Goudsmit Lecturer, University of Michigan
Wu-Zhi Yang Lecturer, Fudan University, Shanghai
Primakoff Lecturer, APS
Oppenheimer Lecture, Berkeley
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