Renowned physicist Yang Chen Ning (pic), a Nobel laureate and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has died in Beijing yesterday at the age of 103, according to Tsinghua University.
Yang was born in Hefei, east China’s Anhui Province, in 1922. In the 1940s, he went to the United States to pursue academic studies and subsequently held teaching positions. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957.
