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BEIJING (REUTERS)
Chen Ning Yang, one of the world's most renowned physicists and a Nobel Prize winner, died at 103 of illness in Beijing on October 18, state news outlet Xinhua said on Saturday.
Born in eastern China's Hefei in Anhui province in 1922, Yang was a Chinese physicist who worked on statistical mechanics and symmetry principles in elementary particle physics.
Yang shared the 1957 Nobel Prize for physics with Tsung-Dao Lee for discovering parity law violations in weak interactions, reshaping particle physics. He was the first person of Chinese descent to win a Nobel Prize.
