Professor Bowen of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Honorary Dean and Professor of the Institute of Advanced Studies of Tsinghua University, Honorary Professor of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Fellow of the China Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Academia Sinica of Taiwan Province Province, Honorary Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 1957 won the Nobel Prize in Physics.
1942 graduated from National Southwest Associated University; 1944 master of Tsinghua University; 1945 studying in the United States; 1948 received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and later served as a lecturer at the University of Chicago and a researcher at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies; 65438-0955 Professor, Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies; From 65438 to 0966, he served as Professor Einstein and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics of State University of New York at Stony Brook.
From 65438 to 0986, he served as Professor Bowen of the Chinese University of Hong Kong; 1993 Director, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong; 1997, the International Asteroid Center named the asteroid numbered 342 1 "Yang Zhenning Star"; Professor Tsinghua University from 65438 to 0998; In 2004, he served as director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the Chinese University of Hong Kong; In 2022, it was named "Touching China 202 1 Person".
Anecdotes of characters:
1, the eldest son of Yangmen
As Yang's parents, he made some attractive rules to encourage his younger brothers and sisters to study more: during the day, whoever studies well, listens to his mother and helps with housework, will be given a red dot, and vice versa. On weekends, whoever has three red dots will be rewarded-he will take it to Kunming to see a movie by bike.
2, the famous teacher Gao Tu
When Yang Zhenning was studying in the Physics Department of the General Assembly, he gave a first-year general physics class to a physicist who was good at experiments, a second-year electromagnetism class to a famous scholar, Professor Wu of Tsinghua University, and a mechanics class to a famous scholar, Professor Zhou Peiyuan of Tsinghua University, who had studied the general theory of relativity.
But for Yang Zhenning, besides those directly taught by the Physics Department, his father Yang Wuzhi also had a great influence on him. At school, when Yang Zhenning encounters problems that he doesn't understand and things that are difficult to handle, he always goes to the office of the Department of Mathematics to ask his father for advice.
Yang Zhenning also said many times: "The two professors who have the deepest influence on me are Mr. Wu Dayou and Mr. Wang Zhuxi." 1942, when Yang Zhenning graduated from university, he chose "Studying the vibration of polyatomic atoms with group theory" as his graduation thesis, and asked Wu Dayou to be his thesis supervisor. Yang Zhenning was educated and guided by Professor Wang Zhuxi while studying in the graduate school, and became interested in statistical physics.
1944 when he graduated from graduate school, Yang Zhenning asked Professor Wang Zhuxi to be the instructor of his master's thesis. Under his guidance, he successfully wrote his master's thesis, and superlattice was one of them.
After the death of Professor Wang Zhuxi 1983, Yang Zhenning sent a message of condolence saying, "My interest in statistical physics was influenced by Teacher Zhu Xi." I also recalled: "In the next forty years, the two directions directed by Mr. Wu and Mr. Wang-symmetry principle and statistical mechanics-have been my main research directions."
Yang Zhenning began to pay attention to "field theory" after listening to Professor Ma Shijun's class in graduate school, and he was also very interested in the thermodynamics of deformable objects. 1957 65438+February 10, 35-year-old Yang Zhenning and 3/kloc-0-year-old Li Zhengdao were awarded the Nobel Prize podium for their article "Questioning the Conservation of Parity in Weak Interaction" published in the American Physical Review.
Before that, I wrote to thank Mr. Wu for guiding him into the field of symmetry principle and group theory, and said that many research works, including parity conservation, were directly or indirectly related to the ideas introduced to him by Mr. Wu 15 years ago.