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Chen-Ning Franklin Yang is a Chinese-American physicist who works on statistical mechanics and particle physics. He and Tsung-dao Lee received the... 1957 Nobel prize in physics for their work on parity nonconservation of weak interaction. Yang became a United States citizen in 1964. Yang was born in Hefei, Anhui, China; his father Yang Ko-Chuen was a mathematician and his mother Luo Meng-hua was a housewife. Yang attended elementary and high school in Beijing, and in the autumn of 1937 his family moved to Hefei after Japanese invaded China. In 1938 they moved to Kunming, Yunnan, where the National Southwestern Associated University was located. In the same year, as a second year student, Yang passed the entrance examination and studied at the National Southwestern Associated University. He received his bachelor's degree in 1942, the thesis being about the application of group theory to molecular spectra, under the supervision of Wu Ta-you .
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Shiing-Shen Chern was a Chinese American mathematician, one of the leaders in differential geometry of the twentieth century. Chern was born in... Xiushui County , Jiaxing, in Zhejiang province. The year after his birth, China changed its regime from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China. He graduated from Xiushui Middle School and subsequently moved to Tianjin in 1922 to accompany his father. In 1926 after spending four years, Chern graduated from Fulun High School in Tianjin. At age 15, Chern entered the Faculty of Sciences of the Nankai University in Tianjin, studied mathematics there, and graduated with BSc in 1930. At Nankai, Chern's mentor was Li-Fu Chiang , a Harvard-trained geometer who was also from Zhejiang. At Nankai, Chern was also heavily influenced by physicist Hu Guoding who was also from Zhejiang. Hu now is considered as one of founding fathers of modern Chinese informatics. Chern went to Beiping to teach at the Tsinghua University Department of Mathematics as a teaching assistant. At the same time he also registered at Tsinghua Graduate School as a master student.
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Shiing-Shen Chern was a Chinese-born American mathematician. He was regarded as one of the leaders in differential geometry of the twentieth... century. Chern was born in Xiushui County , Jiaxing, in Zhejiang province. The year after his birth, China changed its regime from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China. He graduated from Xiushui Middle School and subsequently moved to Tianjin in 1922 to accompany his father. In 1926 after spending four years, Chern graduated from Fulun High School in Tianjin. At age 15, Chern entered the Faculty of Sciences of the Nankai University in Tianjin, studied mathematics there, and graduated with BSc in 1930. At Nankai, Chern's mentor was Li-Fu Chiang , a Harvard-trained geometer who was also from Zhejiang. At Nankai, Chern was also heavily influenced by physicist Hu Guoding who was also from Zhejiang. Hu now is considered as one of founding fathers of modern Chinese informatics. Chern went to Beiping to teach at the Tsinghua University Department of Mathematics as a teaching assistant.
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Chen-Ning Franklin Yang is a Chinese-American physicist who works on statistical mechanics and particle physics. He and Tsung-dao Lee received the... 1957 Nobel prize in physics for their work on parity nonconservation of weak interaction. Yang became a United States citizen in 1964. Yang was born in Hefei, Anhui, China; his father Yang Ko-Chuen was a mathematician and his mother Luo Meng-hua was a housewife. Yang attended elementary and high school in Beijing, and in the autumn of 1937 his family moved to Hefei after Japanese invaded China. In 1938 they moved to Kunming, Yunnan, where the National Southwestern Associated University was located. In the same year, as a second year student, Yang passed the entrance examination and studied at the National Southwestern Associated University. He received his bachelor's degree in 1942, the thesis being about the application of group theory to molecular spectra, under the supervision of Wu Ta-you .
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