Yang Zhenning graduated from National Southwest Associated University; 1944 master of Tsinghua University; 1945 won the Mu Ou Chu Scholarship to study in the United States. 1948 received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and later worked as a lecturer at the University of Chicago and a researcher at Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies.
65438-0955 Professor, Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies; From 65438 to 0966, he served as Professor Einstein and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics of State University of New York at Stony Brook. From 65438 to 0986, he served as Professor Bowen of the Chinese University of Hong Kong; 1993 Director, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong; Professor Tsinghua University went from 65438 to 0998.
On September 22, 2003, Yang Zhenning, founder of the Advanced Academic Research Center of Sun Yat-sen University Foundation, said that his future academic research activities would be mainly conducted in China. At the end of 2003, Yang Zhenning returned to China to settle down. Since then, he has been going back and forth between Beijing and Hongkong.
2065438+In February 2007, he gave up American citizenship and became an academician of China Academy of Sciences. With his enthusiasm in Tsinghua University, Yang Zhenning donated his annual salary of one million yuan to Tsinghua University Research Institute, sold his house with one million yuan, and introduced and trained talents.
At the same time, Yang Zhenning also brought a lot of research funds to top universities in Tsinghua, Nankai and Fudan through various activities, and established dozens of physics laboratories, which injected fresh blood into physics. Let's learn physics by going up a flight of stairs.
Yang Zhenning's Centennial Speech: May people live a long life and travel thousands of miles together.
On the afternoon of September 22nd, 2002/KLOC-0, Mr. Yang Zhenning's academic thought seminar-the centenary of Mr. Yang He's birthday was held in Tsinghua University. At the meeting, Mr. Yang Zhenning gave a speech on the topic of "I wish you a long time and a thousand miles together".
At the seminar, Yang Zhenning recalled that in 197 1 year, Deng Jiaxian wrote to him: "May people go together for a long time." Yang Zhenning said that he didn't understand this sentence at that time. Fifty years later, he responded: "Jiaxian, I know what you mean by' vulgar way'. I can confidently tell you that in the next 50 years, I will meet your expectations of' common road', and I believe you will be satisfied. "
Refer to the above? Baidu Encyclopedia-Yang Zhenning