Chen Ning Yang, Chinese Nobel Laureate in Physics, Dies at 103

Chen Ning Yang in 2019.Photographer: Li Jin/VCG/Getty Images

Chen Ning Yang, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who gave up his US citizenship to become a citizen of China in 2015 and helped persuade other scientists to do the same, passed away. He was 103.

Yang died of illness on Saturday in Beijing, according to a statement posted on the Tsinghua University website.