Born on September 22, 1922 in Hofei, Anhwei, China, came to the United Statesin 1946. He received BS from National Southwest Associated University in 1942 and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1948. He was instructor, University of Chicago (1949-49), member, Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton University (1949-55), professor, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton University (1955-66 ), director, C.N. Yang Institute of Theoretical Physics, SUNY, Stonmy Brook (1966-99), Albert Einstein professor, SUNY, Stony Brook (1966-99), distinguished professor-at-large, Chinese University in Hong Kong (1986- ). He retired as professor emeritus, SUNY, Stony Brook in 1999.
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Dr. Yang and Dr. Tsung Dao Lee worked on a project involved in the principle of conservation of parity experimented by Dr. Chien-shiung Wu and others proved that the principle violated in the weak nuclear reactions, those nuclear processes that result in the emission of beta or alpha particles. For this discovery, Drs. Yang and Lee were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957.
He was awarded a number of honorary degrees: DSc, Princeton University (1958), Dsc, Broklyn Institute of Polytechnology (1958), Dsc, University of Wroclaw, Poland (1974), DSc), Gustavus Adolphus College (1975), DSc, University of Maryland (1979 ), DSc, University of Durham, England (1979), Dsc, Fudan University, China (1984), DSc, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland (1987), DSc, Moscow State University (1992), and DSc, Drexel University (1995). Other honors he received include Rumford prize (1980), National Medal of Science (1986), and Benjamin Franklin medal (1993), and Bower prize (1994). He is also trustee, Rockefeller University (1970-76), trustee, Salk Institute (1978-89), and trustee, Ben Gurion University (1980- ).
In profesisonal activities, Dr. yang is a member of a number of associations: AAAS (board director, 1975-79), NAS, American Physics Society, Royal society, London, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academia Sinica, Brazilian Academy of Sciences, Russian Academyu of Sciences, Korean Academy of Sciences and Technology, American Philosphical society, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and Sigma Xi.