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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1957

"for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles"
Chen Ning Yang Tsung-Dao Lee
Chen Ning Yang Tsung-Dao Lee
half 1/2 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
China China
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, NJ, USA		 Columbia University
New York, NY, USA
b. 1922 b. 1926
 
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