Chen Ning Yang, a world-renowned scientist and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics, died on Saturday in Beijing at the age of 103, Chinese state media said.

His death was attributed only to "illness" in a report by state broadcaster CCTV.

Born in Hefei in the eastern Chinese province of Anhui, Yang moved to the United States in the 1940s to pursue higher education.

He later held various teaching positions in the country, obtaining US citizenship before reportedly giving it up in 2015.

Yang shared his 1957 Nobel prize with his colleague Tsung-Dao Lee for their joint work in upsetting the principle of conservation of parity as a fundamental law of nuclear physics.

He is also regarded for the Yang-Mills theory -- a mathematical framework for describing the way force-carrying particl

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