Nobel Prize–winning Chinese physicist Chen

Beijing: Noted Chinese physicist and Nobel Laureate Chen Ning Yang, died in Beijing on Saturday. He was 103 years old.

Yang was born in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province, in 1922. In the 1940s, he went to the United States to pursue academic studies and subsequently held teaching positions. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957, official media here reported.

In 1954, he co-authored a set of equations with the American physicist Robert Mills that turned out to be as important to physics as Einstein’s theory of relativity.

The resulting Yang Mills theory described how three of nature’s four fundamental forces the electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions operate in the subatomic world, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported.

Their theory laid the mathemati