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Chen Ning Yang — The Man Who Unlocked Symmetry (EP. 14)

Chen Ning Yang — The Man Who Unlocked Symmetry (EP. 14)

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Hosted by Lester Nare and Krishna Choudhary, this episode tells the
story of Nobel laureate Chen Ning Yang and how his ideas on
symmetry and gauge theory transformed modern physics. Summary •
Early Years & Mentorship: From China to Chicago — learning
under Fermi and Chandrasekhar. • Parity Violation: How Yang &
Lee overturned the mirror-symmetry assumption and changed physics
forever. • Gauge Symmetry & Yang-Mills Fields: The foundation
of the Standard Model of particle physics. • Legacy &
Philosophy: Why Yang saw beauty as nature’s signature and symmetry
as its language. Show Notes • Nobel Prize in Physics 1957 — Chen
Ning Yang & Tsung-Dao Lee • Original Yang–Mills Paper (1954,
Physical Review) • Madame Wu’s Parity Violation Experiment (1957) •
Biography of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (University of Chicago)