Where is Yang Zhenning from?

On April 2065438+2005 1 day, Yang Zhenning renounced American citizenship and became a citizen of China. On 20 17, the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced that Yang Zhenning was officially transferred to the Chinese Academy of Sciences. When the news came out, it immediately shocked everyone. This is the first time in history that a foreign academician has been transferred to China.

Yang Zhenning's contribution

1957, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics with Li Zhengdao for putting forward the principle of parity non-conservation of weak interaction. His "Young-Mills gauge field" theory is one of the most important achievements in physics in the 20th century. Since 2003, Yang Zhenning has returned to China to settle down and teach in Tsinghua University, which has made important contributions to training and recruiting talents and promoting academic exchanges between China and foreign countries.