Mills failed to win the Nobel Prize because of Young-Mills theory. First of all, although Young-Mills theory is famous in physics, it has been pushed to the heights of Newtonian mechanics and Maxwell electromagnetism in science. However, the two of them didn't win the Nobel Prize for this ... There is a popular view that Yang Zhenning has won the Nobel Prize in physics because of parity non-conservation, and it is impossible to win another prize in the same field. Although this reason is reasonable, it does not hold, because there are counterexamples in the history of the Nobel Prize.
Losing Yang Zhenning and Li Zhengdao
A person who has won two or more Nobel Prizes in the same field.
The most typical one is the British biochemist Fred Sanger, who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for insulin sequencing in 1958 and DNA sequencing in 1980. It is not enough to win the same prize twice, and the reason for winning the prize twice is also related to the ranking. ...
Fred Sanger
Another person who won two Nobel Prizes in the same field is john bardeen. /kloc-0 won the first nobel prize in physics in 1956 for his research on semiconductors and transistors, and/kloc-0 won the second nobel prize in physics in 1972 for his theory of low-temperature superconductivity.
John Bardeen
Therefore, the reason why the same person can't win two prizes in the same field is untenable. Yang Zhenning won once and Mills didn't. Have you considered Mills' feelings _(:D)∞)_
Yang Zhenning is not only famous for Yang-Mills theory.
Yang Zhenning is famous for Li Zhengdao's proposition that parity is not conserved under weak interaction in 1956, which was confirmed by many experimental teams. He won the Nobel Prize in physics the following year and became the fastest theory to win the Nobel Prize. At this time, although Yang-Mills theory has been put forward for several years, it has not solved the quality problem of the field pointed out by Pauli, a poisonous tongue, so it has been put into limbo by physics circles. It was not until many years later that their remaining problems were solved by other physicists that Yang-Mills theory was revived. Perhaps this is the reason why Mills failed to win the Nobel Prize in physics based on the young Mills theory, because the theory they put forward is problematic, and it is not they who finally solve the problem. If awards are to be given, do they have to be given to people who solve problems? It has exceeded ...
On the other hand, Yang Zhenning is too prolific. In addition to parity non-conservation and Yang Mills' theory, he has made more than a dozen important theoretical contributions in many physical fields, any of which can make him among the first-class scientists. By contrast, Mills is really inferior. After young Mills' theory, he has no important theory.
A trophy engraved with 13 Yang Zhenning's important contribution.
Yang Zhenning's main contribution is Yang-Mills theory.
1954 put forward by young-mills theory has been quite famous among scientists. He published many important papers, a large part of which was completed in cooperation with Li Zhengdao. At this time, Yang Zhenning was already a lecturer at the University of Chicago and a researcher at Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies, while Mills was still a fledgling graduate student. Later, Mills also publicly admitted that the Young-Mills theory belonged to, and he only participated in some discussions and assisted in some calculations and other related work.
Yang Zhenning and Mills
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Generally speaking, although Yang-Mills theory was published by two people, the main theoretical framework was established by. Because Yang Zhenning is very good at mathematics, it can be said that Yang Zhenning flew with Mills this time, and Mills is also quite modest. He never stole Yang Zhenning's thunder, so they have been able to maintain good friendship.