{"id":349167,"date":"2025-11-02T00:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T00:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/349167\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T00:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T00:37:11","slug":"how-did-chen-ning-yang-miss-out-on-a-second-nobel-prize-in-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/349167\/","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":3,"featured_media":349168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[9710,171142,74,117497,69128,171143,48618,440,171144,54678,63290,492,15752,164499,159,111014,67,132,68,157619],"class_list":{"0":"post-349167","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-europe","16":"tag-japanese-invasion","17":"tag-kunming","18":"tag-nobel-prize","19":"tag-physics","20":"tag-princeton-university","21":"tag-robert-mills","22":"tag-science","23":"tag-standard-model","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-yang-mills-theory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115477311973862656","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}