Yang Zhenning won the Nobel Prize. He is indeed a very good physicist and has made great contributions to mankind and the world. Yang Zhenning was born in Hefei, Anhui Province on October 1, 1922 (later his date of birth was mistakenly written as September 22, 1922 on his overseas passport in 1975). He was less than one year old when his father Yang Wuzhi was admitted to study in the United States at public expense and went abroad. When he was 4 years old, his mother began to teach him how to read square characters, and she taught him 3,000 characters in more than a year. Yang Zhenning recalled when he was 50 years old: "The total number of characters I recognize now is estimated to be no more than twice that number." '

? What Yang Zhenning cares most about is science rather than politics. He talked about some of his experiences: How could a young student from a backward city in a remote area of ??China be lucky enough to participate in one of the most important ideological revolutions of the 20th century? This revolution was an attempt to use a unified approach to understand the infinite diversity of nature, from the chaotic explosions of stars to the quivering of electrons circling atomic nuclei.

In 1956, Yang Zhenning became famous for the first time. That year he and Lee Tsung-dao *** published an article together, overturning one of the central messages of physics—that parity-conserving elementary particles behave exactly the same as their mirror images. For this work, the two won the Nobel Prize in 1957.

In the long run, the pioneering work of Chen Ning Yang and the late Mills in 1954 is more important. That year, both men worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory. They proposed a theoretical structure called non-Abelian gauge fields. It later proved to be the key to describing forces and elementary particles in a unified way. "When it was written in 1954, it was extremely controversial," says Machinu, a theoretical physicist at Brock Haven. "Some people thought it had nothing to do with the physical world." At the time, Young and Mills did not pursue development. However, it was later proven that this mathematics, extracted from the abstract world of differential geometry and fiber bundles, was precisely designed to describe particle exchanges such as magnetism, electricity, the strong nuclear force, and perhaps the intermediate forces in major interactions. Place. Dyson said: "I would say that the most important thing in Yang Zhenning's work is that norms have often proven to be much more important than his and Li Zhengdao's work on parity."