Monday, September 13, 2004

Yang, Chen Ning

Byname �Frank Yang � Chinese-born American theoretical physicist whose research with Tsung-Dao Lee showed that parity - the symmetry between physical phenomena occurring in right-handed and left-handed coordinate systems - is violated when certain elementary particles decay. Until this discovery it had been assumed by physicists that parity symmetry is

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