{"id":543036,"date":"2025-11-01T23:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T23:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/543036\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T23:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T23:48:10","slug":"how-did-chen-ning-yang-miss-out-on-a-second-nobel-prize-in-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/543036\/","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":543037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3845],"tags":[3801,174690,1395,140889,14787,174691,23391,299,174692,105014,50504,74,174169,170860,70,6771,16,15,166503],"class_list":["post-543036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-physics","tag-beijing","tag-chen-fong-ching","tag-china","tag-chinese-university-of-hong-kong","tag-cold-war","tag-david-gross","tag-einstein","tag-europe","tag-japanese-invasion","tag-kunming","tag-nobel-prize","tag-physics","tag-princeton-university","tag-robert-mills","tag-science","tag-standard-model","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-yang-mills-theory"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115477119340865908","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}