Yang Zhenning’s deeds: Honorary dean and professor of the Institute for Advanced Study of Tsinghua University, physicist, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics. Mr. Yang Zhenning is a great physicist across the century who has made landmark contributions in the fields of particle physics, statistical mechanics and condensed matter physics.

He is deeply concerned about the science and education of the motherland, and has made important contributions to the country’s scientific and technological development and scientific and cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries. He has promoted the Institute of Mathematical Sciences of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Advanced Research Center of Tsinghua University, and the theoretical physics research of Nankai University. and the establishment of the Advanced Academic Research Center of Sun Yat-sen University.

Chen Ning Yang’s award speech: Standing at the intersection of science and tradition, he is amazingly talented. What you have contributed to the world is so profound that not many people understand it. What you dedicated to the motherland is so pure, we all understand. Once, you stood in the front row of the world. Now, you and the country are looking into the future.

Yang Zhenning’s development:

On September 21, 2019, he won the “Qiushi Lifetime Achievement Award” of the 2019 Qiushi Award.

On August 26, 2020, Yang Zhenning was hired as the honorary dean of Anhui University’s Stony Brook College in New York.

On May 14, 2021, in order to support Tsinghua University’s teaching, scientific research, talent training, and cultural inheritance, Mr. Yang Zhenning decided to transfer the books, article manuscripts, correspondence, and video materials in his office and reference room to As well as calligraphy, paintings, sculptures and other artworks, a total of more than 2,000 pieces/volumes were donated to Tsinghua University for free. The Tsinghua Library will receive them and set up a special room for storage and display.