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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 Southwest Associated University (西南聯合大學) 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 Doctor of Philosophy|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 Stony Brook University. 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 D? Zh?lǐ), a teacher, in 1950 and has two sons and a daughter: Franklin Jr., Gilbert, and Eulee (in order of age). He retired from Stony Brook University 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, is studying for a masters at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, and expects to marry her in early 2005.
Category:1922 births|Chen Ning Yang Category:Chinese American scientists Category:Nobel Prize in Physics winners|Yang, Chen Ning Category:Physicists|Yang, Chen Ning Category:People associated with Columbia University|Yang, Chen Ning Category:People associated with University of Chicago|Yang, Chen Ning de:Chen Ning Yang ja:楊振寧 zh-cn:杨振宁 zh-tw:杨振宁 This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Chen Ning Yang".
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