Renowned physicist and Nobel Prize winner Chen-Ning Yang passed away on Saturday in Beijing at the age of 103, according to Tsinghua University.
Yang was born in Hefei, Anhui Province, in eastern China in 1922. In the 1940s, he traveled to the United States to pursue advanced academic studies and later held teaching positions. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957.
The Yang–Mills gauge theory, developed by Yang and Robert Mills, is considered one of the most significant achievements in 20th-century physics.
For more than two decades after returning to China, Yang taught at Tsinghua University and made valuable contributions to talent development, recruitment, and the promotion of international academic exchange.