Chinese Nobel Prize-winning physicist Chen-ning Yang dies, aged 103 | NYGazet

The researcher, whose contribution to science was described as ‘close to Einstein’, specialised in the study of subatomic particles.

Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Chen-ning Yang, died in Beijing on Saturday at the age of 103. Yang died of sickness, according to Xinhua. No details were given. He was often ranked alongside Albert Einstein as one of the 20th century’s gre... [566 chars]