Yang Chen-Ning also known as C.N. Yang and Franklin Yang, was a Chinese-American theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to statistical mechanics, integrable systems, gauge theory, particle physics and condensed matter physics. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1957, announced October 31, 1957. Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee, “for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles”. Chen Ning Yang: born 1922, Hofei, Anhwei, China. Tsung-Dao Lee: born 1926, Shanghai, China. Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).