{"id":74819,"date":"2025-10-18T15:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T06:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/18\/chen-ning-yang-chinese-american-physicist-and-nobel-laureate-dies-at-103"},"modified":"2025-10-18T15:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T06:57:11","slug":"chen-ning-yang-chinese-american-physicist-and-nobel-laureate-dies-at-103","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74819","title":{"rendered":"Chen Ning Yang, Chinese-American physicist and Nobel laureate, dies at 103"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned 1957 Nobel prize winner worked on statistical mechanics and symmetry principles in elementary particle physics<\/p>\n<p>Chen Ning Yang, one of the world\u2019s most renowned physicists and a Nobel prize winner, died on Saturday in Beijing at the age of 103 after an illness, state media outlet Xinhua has reported.<\/p>\n<p>Born in eastern China\u2019s Hefei in Anhui province in 1922, Yang was a Chinese-American physicist who worked on statistical mechanics and symmetry principles in elementary particle physics.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/18\/chen-ning-yang-chinese-american-physicist-and-nobel-laureate-dies-at-103\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned 1957 Nobel prize winner worked on statistical mechanics and symmetry principles in elementary particle physicsChen Ning Yang, one of the world\u2019s most renowned physicists and a Nobel prize winner, died on Saturday in Beijing at the age of 103 a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,3423,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-nobel-prizes","category-science","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74820,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74819\/revisions\/74820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}