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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)