{"id":265886,"date":"2025-11-01T23:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T23:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/265886\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T23:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T23:55:09","slug":"how-did-chen-ning-yang-miss-out-on-a-second-nobel-prize-in-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/265886\/","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":265887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[550,142785,144,113975,39642,142786,15301,1076,142787,22020,31277,199,122797,136622,79,129683,129681],"class_list":["post-265886","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-yang-mills-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}