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Chen-Ning Yang, Nobel laureate, dies at 103


's first Nobel laureate, Yang Chen-Ning, dies, aged 103 Yang Chen-Ning, a world-renowned physicist and Nobel laureate, passed away in Beijing on Saturday at 103. Yang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, professor at Tsinghua University, and the honorary president of the Institute for Advanced Study at Tsinghua, died after an illness, the university said in an obituary, calling the late professor "immortal".

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