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Chen-Ning Yang obituary: intuitive physicist whose work was inspired by the beauty of symmetry

Chen-Ning Yang revealed fundamental left-right asymmetry in physics, won the 1957 Nobel Prize, and promoted scientific cooperation while living six decades in the United States.
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4 days ago

Trump Takes Credit for Nobel Prize Awarded for Research Done in the 1980s

On Oct. 7, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced it awarded this year's prize to John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis. A major question in physics is the maximum size of a system that can demonstrate quantum mechanical effects, the committee stated in a press release. This year's Nobel Prize laureates conducted experiments with an electrical circuit in which they demonstrated both quantum mechanical tunnelling and quantised energy levels in a system big enough to be held in the hand.
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