Nobel Laureate Chen-Ning Yang: The Chinese Physicist Who Revolutionized Modern Physics Dies at 103

Oct 18, 2025 04:43 pm CST

Pioneering Chinese physicist Chen-Ning Yang, whose Nobel Prize-winning work on the Yang-Mills theory became fundamental to modern physics and the Standard Model, has died at 103. His collaborative equations described three of nature's four fundamental forces and inspired generations of Chinese scientists to pursue excellence in theoretical physics.