He is the first China scientist to visit China after the loosening of Sino-US relations, and actively promotes Sino-US cultural exchanges and mutual understanding between Chinese and American people. He has made great contributions to the establishment of diplomatic relations, talent exchange and scientific and technological cooperation between China and the United States.
1942, graduated from The National SouthWest Associated University; 1944, master of Tsinghua University; 1945 won the Mu Ou Chu Scholarship to study in the United States. 1948, Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He was a lecturer at the University of Chicago and a researcher at Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies. 65438-0955, Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, USA.
1966, Professor and Director of Institute of Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook; 1986, Professor Bowen of the Chinese University of Hong Kong; 1998, Professor Tsinghua University; 20 17, restoring the nationality of China people; 20 18 served as honorary chairman of the board of trustees of West Lake University.
Yang Zhenning has made landmark contributions in particle physics, statistical mechanics and condensed matter physics. In 1950s, he cooperated with R.L. Mills to put forward the theory of non-Abelian gauge field. 1956 cooperated with Li Zhengdao to put forward the law of parity conservation of weak interaction.
A lot of pioneering work has been done in particle physics and statistical physics, and Yang-Baxter equation has been put forward, which has opened up a new direction for the study of quantum integrable systems and many-body problems. In addition, Yang Zhenning also promoted the establishment of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Advanced Research Center of Tsinghua University, the Theoretical Physics Laboratory of Nankai University and the Advanced Academic Research Center of Sun Yat-sen University.
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1958 was elected as an academician of academia sinica in Taiwan Province province.
1965 was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
1993 Elected as a member of the Royal Society.
1994, elected as a foreign academician of China Academy of Sciences.
65438-0996 was awarded honorary doctorate by Tsinghua University and Shanghai Jiaotong University.
1997, received an honorary doctorate in science from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
1999, awarded the first-class honorary doctorate by the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
2065438+was awarded the honorary doctor of science degree by Taiwan Province Provincial University in March 2005. ?
20 15 was awarded an honorary doctorate by the university of macau in March 20 14.
2065438+In February 2007, Professor Yang Zhenning, a foreign academician of China Academy of Sciences who gave up his foreign nationality and joined China nationality, officially became an academician of China Academy of Sciences.
In addition, Yang Zhenning was awarded honorary titles of academicians of several European and Latin American academies, such as Russian Academy of Sciences, Pontifical Academy of Sciences (Pontifical Academy of Sciences of the Holy See), Brazilian Academy of Sciences, Venezuelan Academy of Sciences and Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences, and honorary doctorates of several universities.