What did Yang Zhenning and Li Zhengdao get together?

Yang Zhenning and Li Zhengdao, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957, were born in Hefei, Anhui Province in 1922. They graduated from the National Southwest Associated University in 1942. In 1945, they received a boxer indemnity scholarship to study in the United States and entered the University of Chicago. After receiving a doctorate in philosophy in 1948, they entered the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies for postdoctoral research. It was here that their cooperation with Li Zhengdao began.

Mr. Yang Zhenning. In 1956, Yang Zhenning and Li Zhengdao published a paper together, which overturned one of the central information of physics-parity conservation elementary particles and their mirror images are exactly the same. The following year (1957), Yang Zhenning and Li Zhengdao won the Nobel Prize in physics for putting forward the theory of parity non-conservation. Yang Zhenning was 35 years old. As Yang Zhenning became a citizen of the United States in 1964, he was still from China when he won the Nobel Prize. In 215, Yang Zhenning gave up American citizenship and became a citizen of China.

Li Zhengdao, born in Shanghai in 1926 and from Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, was admitted to the Physics Department of Zhejiang University in 1943, transferred to the National Southwest Associated University in 1944, and went to the United States to study at the University of Chicago in 1946. In 1955, at the age of 29, Li Zhengdao became the youngest full professor in the history of Columbia University for more than 2 years. In 1956, he and Yang Zhenning put forward the theory of parity non-conservation. The following year, both of them won the Nobel Prize in Physics. Li Zhengdao was 31 years old. Since Li Zhengdao was naturalized in the United States in 1962, he was also from China when he won the Nobel Prize.