Chen Ning Yang
Honorary Director and Professor
Important Events in the Life of Chen Ning Yang
Education background
BSc Southwest Associated University, China 1942
MPhil Tsinghua University, China 1944
PhD University of Chicago, USA 1948
Experience
1949-1966 Member and Professor, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, USA
1966-1999 Albert Einstein Professor of Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
1986-now Distinguished Professor-at-large, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
1999-now Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Areas of Research Interests/ Research Projects
Particle Physics
Field Theory
Statistical Physics
Condensed Matter Physics
Awards and Memberships
1957 Nobel Prize
1980 Rumford Prize
1986 U.S. National Medal of Science
1993 Benjamin Franklin Medal
1994 Bower Award
1995 China International Science and Technology Cooperation Award
1996 N. Bogoliubov Prize
1999 Lars Onsager Prize
2001 King Faisal International Prize
2019 Qiu Shi Lifetime Achievement Award
Foreign Member, National Academy of Science, USA
Foreign Member, Royal Society (London)
Foreign Member, Russian Academy of Sciences
Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Academic Achievement
1.Field Theory. Most important paper being the one with R. L. Mills, Phys. Rev.96, 191(1954),
(establishing Yang-Mills theory)
2.High Energy Phenomenology. Most important paper being the one with T.D. Lee, Phys. 104, 254(1956),
(proposing nonconservation of parity in week interactions)
3.Statistical Mechanics. Most important paper being Phys. Rev. Letters 19, 1312(1967),
(giving Yang-Baxter equation)
4.Condensed Matter Theory. Most important paper being Rev. Mod. Physics 34, 694(1962),
(on concept of ODLRO)
Publication
Scientific and Related Works of Chen Ning Yang
[42a] C. N. Yang.
Group Theory and the Vibration of Polyatomic Molecules.
B.Sc. thesis, National Southwest Associated University (1942).
[44a] C. N. Yang.
On the Uniqueness of Young's Differentials.
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 50, 373 (1944).
[44b] C. N. Yang.
Variation of Interaction Energy with Change of Lattice Constants and Change of Degree of Order.
Chinese J. of Phys. 5, 138 (1944).
[44c] C. N. Yang.
Investigations in the Statistical Theory of Superlattices.
M.Sc. thesis, National Tsing Hua University (1944).
[45a] C. N. Yang.
A Generalization of the Quasi-Chemical Method in the Statistical Theory of Superlattices.
J. Chem. Phys. 13, 66 (1945).
[45b] C. N. Yang.
The Critical Temperature and Discontinuity of Specific Heat of a Superlattice.
Chinese J. Phys. 6, 59 (1945).
[46a] James Alexander, Geoffrey Chew, Walter Salove, Chen Yang.
Translation of the 1933 Pauli article “Relativistic Quantum Mechanics” in Handbuch der Physik, volume 14, Part II; Chapter 2, Section B.
[47a] C. N. Yang.
On Quantized Space-Time.
Phys. Rev. 72, 874 (1947).
[47b] C. N. Yang and Y. Y. Li.
General Theory of the Quasi-Chemical Method in the Statistical Theory of Superlattices.
Chinese J. Phys. 7, 59 (1947).
[48a] C. N. Yang.
On the Angular Distribution in Nuclear Reactions and Coincidence Measurements.
Phys. Rev. 74, 764 (1948).
[48b] S. K. Allison, H. V. Argo, W. R. Arnold, L. del Rosario, H. A. Wilcox and C. N. Yang.
Measurement of Short Range Nuclear Recoils from Disintegrations of the Light Elements.
Phys. Rev. 74, 1233 (1948).
[48c] C. N. Yang.
On the Angular Distribution in Nuclear Reactions and Coincidence Measurements.
Ph.D. thesis, University of Chicago (1948).
[49a] T. D. Lee, M. Rosenbluth and C. N. Yang.
Interaction of Mesons with Nucleons and Light Particles.
Phys. Rev. 75, 905 (1949).
介子與核子和輕粒子的相互作用
《20世紀上半葉中國物理學論文集粹》 ,戴念祖編, 湖南教育出版社(1993), p. 1218-1219.
[49b] E. Fermi and C. N. Yang.
Are Mesons Elementary Particles?
Phys. Rev. 76, 1739 (1949).
