C. N. Yang

C. N. Yang was a renowned Chinese-American physicist who made groundbreaking contributions to theoretical physics, particularly in quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics. He is best known for the Yang-Mills theory, which describes how fundamental forces like the strong and weak nuclear forces work, forming the basis of the Standard Model of particle physics. His work helped scientists understand the fundamental particles and forces in the universe. Yang shared the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics with Chen-Ning Wu for their work on parity violation, a discovery that altered long-held assumptions about symmetry in physics.