Chen-Ning Yang: The Nobel Hero Who Redefined Modern Physics
On October 18, 2025, the world lost a scientific titan, Chen-Ning Yang, at the age of 103 in Beijing. A Chinese-American physicist, Yang won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics alongside Tsung-Dao Lee for their groundbreaking discovery that parity—a fundamental symmetry in nature—does not hold in weak nuclear interactions. This revelation shook the foundations of…