Person in history
Yang Chen-Ning
Yang Chen-Ning, Chinese theoretical physicist (born 1922)
Life at a glance
- Died
- 2025 · October 18
Their story
Who they were
Yang Chen-Ning also known as C.N. Yang and Franklin Yang, was a Chinese-American theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to statistical mechanics, integrable systems, gauge theory, particle physics and condensed matter physics.
Why this date
Yang Chen-Ning appears on our October 18 calendar for 2025 as a death entry.
Sources
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Questions about Yang Chen-Ning
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October 18 2025.
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