As world-famous scientific masters, Yang Zhenning and Li Zhengdao jointly won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics. Since the two regretfully parted ways due to personal grudges, Yang Zhenning has indeed gained a greater reputation than Lee Tsung-dao over the years. Yang Zhenning and Li Zhengdao collaborated to complete "Parity Non-Conservation". For this contribution alone, they immediately won the Nobel Prize in Physics. At that time, Wu Jianxiong should also have won the award at the same time, but because she was a woman, she encountered gender bias? So it is a pity. "Parity is not conserved" is a very important discovery, which overturned 30 years of scientific knowledge. In order to compete for the "first person" of this discovery, Li Zhengdao and Yang Zhenning had some conflicts. However, we are now basically certain that Lee Tsung-dao and Yang Chenning could not make this contribution independently at that time, and they could not do it without anyone. As for who is the first? It is not particularly important.

(Chen Ning Yang and Mr. Mao)

In fact, since Li Tsung-dao won the Nobel Prize, he has never had any major academic innovations and has gradually become mediocre. Yang Zhenning believes that Li Zhengdao is an extremely smart physicist with strong absorptive ability and works very hard. But Insight and Mathematical Power are slightly inferior? As we all know, mathematical ability determines the foundation of physics. If a physicist's mathematical skills are too lacking, he will also struggle in the field of physics. Yang Zhenning's mathematical ability is obviously higher than that of Li Zhengdao. Just look at the Yang-Mills theory and you will know that it would have been impossible to invent this theory without the mathematical genius of genius. Therefore, after Chen Ning Yang won the Nobel Prize in Physics, not only did he not reach the peak of his personal academic career at this moment, but he continued to move forward, overcoming obstacles and becoming more courageous as he fought. At the same time, he made achievements in the fields of cold atoms, condensed matter, statistical mechanics, field theory, etc. Continuously. In addition, Yang-M was recognized in the field, and the achievements of 10 Nobel Prize winners came from this, making Yang Zhenning famous. Therefore, Li Xin, editor-in-chief of Sanlian Bookstore, said that Yang Zhenning does not need to care about the issue of the first ownership of "non-conservation of parity" because his scientific achievements have long surpassed the height of "non-conservation of parity". For example, a champion of the National Composition Grand Prix does not need to compete for the ranking in the city's composition competition. Because Li Zhengdao's overall strength is slightly inferior, it is understandable that he did not receive similar achievements and honors after winning the Nobel Prize in Physics. After all, physics is too difficult and profound and can only belong to the stage of genius.

(Lu Changhai’s evaluation of Yang Zhenning)

But scientific contributions alone are not enough to give Yang Zhenning a huge social influence. Yang Zhenning became famous because he was an extremely outstanding social activist. According to Academician Hua Tong, Yang Zhenning is the most powerful diplomat and has made great contributions to the diplomatic cause of enhancing friendship between China and other countries.

For example, Yang Zhenning frequently returned to China for visits in 1971. It was an "ice-breaking trip" and caused a sensation all over the world. After him, a large number of overseas scientists began to return to China. After Chen Ning Yang returned to the United States, he gave more than 70 speeches at American universities, speaking well of China and dispelling many people's misunderstandings about us.

(Chen Ning Yang and Mr. Zhou)

Chen Ning Yang is also the founder and first president of the National Chinese Association. In the 1970s and 1980s, the association led millions of Chinese to actively participate in and promote Sino-US cooperation, and its influence was widespread. As the founder and chairman, Yang Zhenning has published full-page articles in well-known American newspapers and periodicals many times, demanding that the Washington government must pay attention to its relations with China, abandon confrontation and pursue cooperation. He also urged the president to put the establishment of diplomatic relations with China on the agenda as soon as possible. When Mr. Deng visited the United States, Yang Zhenning personally organized personnel to welcome him and was the first to speak at the welcome banquet of more than 800 people.

Yang Zhenning is also the founder and leader of an international organization that protects a small island in the East China Sea. He has publicly testified for my country’s territorial sovereignty rights in the Senate and the court many times.

Yang Zhenning also established the CEEC Prize Foundation in 1977, established three foundations in the United States and Hong Kong to raise huge funds, and began to organize domestic high-end scholars to study in American universities, with free tuition and living expenses. Most of them later returned to China to work. Thousands of people have benefited so far. I once saw a table that listed hundreds of scholars who participated in this program and visited the United States from 1981 to 1992 alone. Since then, there are still scholars who have gone abroad in batches for further study with the help of Mr. Yang. These scholars were originally scientific and technological elites. After returning from study tours, they without exception became leaders in research in various fields of natural sciences in my country. Many were elected as academicians of the two academies, including Chen Jia'er, who later served as president of Peking University and served as Yang Fujia, president of Fudan University, and Gu Chaohao, former president of University of Science and Technology of China. (Note: Early graduates of the Nankai Theoretical Physics Laboratory, including Xue Kang, currently Vice Chairman of the CPPCC Jilin Province and Vice President of Northeast Normal University, Sun Changpu, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Su Gang, Vice President of the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, were all funded by Yang Zhenning After visiting the State University of New York at Stony Brook for a year, Academician Chen Shengshen revealed many years later that in order to raise money to send Chinese scholars abroad for training, Chen Ning Yang once went to New York's Chinatown to give a speech with a high fever.