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Chen-Ning Yang

Theoretical physicist

Also known as C. N. Yang · Chen Ning Yang

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Who they are

Chen-Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee examined whether parity conservation had actually been tested in weak interactions. Their 1956 paper proposed experiments capable of answering that question. The timeline connects that theoretical proposal with the later experiment by Chien-Shiung Wu and her collaborators, preserving the distinction between proposing a test and carrying it out.

He appears in the parity-violation milestone as a coauthor of the question and proposed tests that preceded the experimental result.

Selected contributions

  • Coauthored the 1956 examination of parity conservation and proposed tests with Tsung-Dao Lee.Source ↗

Selected works

  • Academic paper · 1956 · Published journal article; 1957 erratum listed by publisher

    Question of Parity Conservation in Weak Interactions

    Coauthor with Tsung-Dao Lee · Physical Review / American Physical Society

    Lee and Yang examine whether evidence actually establishes parity conservation in weak interactions and propose experiments to test it. Their theoretical paper frames the question answered by Wu and her NBS collaborators.

    The linked publisher record notes an erratum in Physical Review 106, 1371 (1957); its full text was not inspected.

    Abstract ↗Abstract ↗

    Reading scope & citation

    Freshly read author abstract, byline, publication date and linked erratum notice. The original article and 1957 erratum text were not freshly read. Publisher abstract, authorship, bibliographic details and linked 1957 erratum. Publisher search extraction supplied abstract and metadata; direct DOI open failed. The erratum’s existence was verified, but its full text was not inspected.

    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRev.104.254

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