Professor CN Yang, a friend of CUHK for over half a century and our Distinguished Professor-at-Large, is one of the most important theoretical physicists of the contemporary era, and one of the first Chinese to win the Nobel Prize. Gauge theory and parity non-conservation, both proposed by Professor Yang and collaborators, are now at the heart of modern physics; gauge theory, in particular, will be the basis upon which physics will advance in the next hundred years. As Professor Yang enters the hundredth year of a remarkable life, CUHK is delighted to present the Exhibition “Professor CN Yang at 100: Grand Master of Physics, Stalwart Friend of CUHK”, as part of the celebratory activities.

 

Highlight Exhibits Related Links
Certificates

Study and Research Notes

Theses

Major Theories

Connection with CUHK

Medals

Virtual Tour

The CN Yang Archive

CN Yang’s 1964 Lecture in Hong Kong

Reading List

 

 

Highlight Exhibits – Certificates

Graduation certificate from National Southwest Associated University, 1942
Recipients list of The Sixth Tsinghua University Fellowship for further study in the United States, 1944
Transcript from Tsinghua University, 1945
PhD diploma from the University of Chicago, 1948

Highlight Exhibits – Study and Research Notes

Notebook related to quantum mechanics, 1942
Notebook related to spinor analysis and nuclear physics
Laboratory log book, Aug 1947 - Feb 1948

Highlight Exhibits – Theses

 

BSc Thesis - Group Theory and the Vibration of Polyatomic Molecules, 1942
MSc Thesis - Investigations in the Statistical Theory of Superlattices, 1944
PhD Thesis - On the Angular Distribution in Nuclear Reactions and Coincidence Measurements, 1948

Highlight Exhibits – Major Theories

Typewritten manuscript of Yang-Mills Theory, 1954
Typewritten manuscript of the paper "Question of Parity Conservation in Weak Interactions", 1956

Highlight Exhibits – Connection with CUHK

Letter to Dr CM Li, then Vice-Chancellor of CUHK, accepting invitation to serve on the Advisory Board on Natural Sciences, 1965
Forty Years as Student and Teacher, CUHK 20th Anniversary Lecture pamphlet, 1983
Correspondence related to the appointment as Distinguished Professor-at-Large, 1986
Celebration in Honour of the 80th Birthday of Yang Chen Ning, 2002

Highlight Exhibits – Medals

Nobel Prize in Physics Medal, 1957
Nobel Prize in Physics Medal and Certificate, 1957
Enrico Fermi Medel, 1979
Rumford Premium Medal, 1980
Benjamin Franklin Medal, 1993
Bower Award, 1994
Albert Einstein Medal, 1995