{"id":157902,"date":"2025-11-02T00:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T00:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/157902\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T00:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T00:05:07","slug":"how-did-chen-ning-yang-miss-out-on-a-second-nobel-prize-in-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/157902\/","title":{"rendered":"How did Chen-ning Yang miss out on a second Nobel Prize in physics?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the Nobel Prize<\/a> began recognising exceptional achievements in science, literature and peace in 1901, only five scientists from Europe and the United States have been double recipients of this prestigious award.<\/p>\n

Could a Chinese scientist have joined their ranks?<\/p>\n

Yang\u2019s long-time friend Chen Fong-ching, an honorary professor at the physics department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said that since the 1980s, many scientists had suggested that Yang deserved a second Nobel.<\/p>\n

Yang and Lee made history in 1957 as the first Chinese-born scientists to be awarded the Nobel Prize for physics for another discovery that challenged an orthodox concept known as parity, the idea that a decaying particle would always result in the same number of sub-particles.<\/p>\n

In a landmark paper published in 1956, the duo suggested experiments that would show the number of sub-particles created by a decaying particle could vary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since the Nobel Prize began recognising exceptional achievements in science, literature and peace in 1901, only five scientists…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[271],"tags":[1793,91915,381,21524,44278,91916,14589,18,1015,19,17,91917,53000,20500,452,2630,85378,133,77984,77982],"class_list":{"0":"post-157902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-physics","8":"tag-beijing","9":"tag-chen-fong-ching","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-chinese-university-of-hong-kong","12":"tag-cold-war","13":"tag-david-gross","14":"tag-einstein","15":"tag-eire","16":"tag-europe","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-japanese-invasion","20":"tag-kunming","21":"tag-nobel-prize","22":"tag-physics","23":"tag-princeton-university","24":"tag-robert-mills","25":"tag-science","26":"tag-standard-model","27":"tag-yang-mills-theory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115477186045458253","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}