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World-renowned physicist and Nobel laureate Chen Ning Yang has died in Beijing at the age of 103, according to Chinese state media reports on Saturday.
State broadcaster CCTV said Yang passed away following an illness, without providing further details.
Born in Hefei, in China’s eastern Anhui Province, Yang relocated to the United States in the 1940s to further his education. He later became a U.S. citizen, though reports indicate that he renounced his citizenship in 2015.
In 1957, Yang shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Tsung-Dao Lee for their groundbreaking discovery that overturned the long-held law of conservation of parity in nuclear physics.
He also co-developed the Yang–Mills theory with American physicist Robert Mills in the early 1950s — a framework that became fundamental in understanding how force-carrying particles interact, forming a cornerstone of modern particle physics.
In his later years, Yang served as a professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, where he played a key role in nurturing scientific talent and promoting international academic cooperation, according to Xinhua News Agency.
Yang’s first wife, Chih Li Tu, died in 2003. A year later, at the age of 82, he married Weng Fan, a 28-year-old graduate student.
