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Chen Ning Franklin Yang (楊振寧 , 1922 ) is a Chinese American Physicist who worked on Statistical Mechanics and Symmetry Principles . In 1957, at the age of 35, he and Tsung-Dao Lee received the Nobel Prize In Physics for their theory that Weak Force interactions between Elementary Particle s did not have Parity (mirror-reflection) symmetry. Chien-Shiung Wu experimentally verified the theory. Yang is also well known for his collaboration with Robert Mills in developing a Gauge Theory of a new class. Such "Yang-Mills theories" are now a fundamental part of the Standard Model of Particle Physics . Born in Hefei , Anhui , China Yang attended Elementary School in Beijing , and Middle School first in Beijing, then in Kunming . He received his Bachelor Of Science degree from National Southwestern Associated University in Kunming in 1942. Two years later, he studied for his Master Of Science degree with a full Scholarship at Tsinghua University , at the time also in Kunming. He attended the University Of Chicago on a Tsinghua University Fellowship in January 1946. There he studied for his Ph.D. with Edward Teller and after receiving it in 1948, remained for a year as an assistant to Enrico Fermi . In 1949 he moved to the Institute For Advanced Study and in 1965 to the State University Of New York At Stony Brook . He has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Academia Sinica , and was awarded an honorary doctorate by Princeton University (1958). Yang married Chih-li Tu (杜致禮 Dù Zhìlǐ), a teacher, in 1950 and has two sons and a daughter: Franklin Jr., Gilbert, and Eulee (in order of age). His father-in-law was the Kuomintang General Du Yuming . He retired from Stony Brook in 1999 and returned to Tsinghua University . His wife died in the winter of 2003 . At the age of 82, Yang became engaged to 28-year old Weng Fan who is studying for her masters at Guangdong University Of Foreign Studies , and married her in early 2005. He has since received much criticism from some Chinese media. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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