Mathematician:Yang Chen-Ning

Mathematician

Chinese theoretical physicist who has made significant contributions to statistical mechanics, integrable systems, gauge theory, and both particle physics and condensed matter physics.

Formulated Yang-Mills theory with Robert Laurence Mills.

Nationality

Chinese

History

• Born: 1 October 1922 in Hefei, Republic of China
• Died:

Theorems and Definitions

• With Robert Laurence Mills:
  • Yang-Mills Field
  • Yang-Mills Theory

Results named for Yang Chen-Ning can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Yang Chen-Ning can be found here.

Publications

• 1954: Conservation of Isotopic Spin and Isotopic Gauge Invariance (Phys. Rev. Vol. 96, no. 1: pp. 191 – 195) (with R.L. Mills)
• 1966: Treatment of Overlapping Divergences in the Photon Self-Energy Function (Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement Vol. 37: p. 507) (with R.L. Mills)

Also known as

In Chinese: 杨振宁; pinyin: Yáng Zhènníng. Yang is his family name.

His name can also be rendered Chen-Ning Yang.