Chen-Ning Yang
Video Chapters
- A Product of two cultures in conflict and in harmony (3:43)
- From Tsinghua to Kunming during the war (3:45)
- Learning quantum mechanics in China and Chicago Edward Teller (2:41)
- Arriving in U.S. and becoming a student in Chicago (6:35)
- Work with Fermi, Teller and Allison in Chicago and thesis (6:36)
- Joint Paper with Fermi (2:52)
- Paper with Mills on Gauge Theories (9:50)
- Emerging theories of "The Standard Model" (6:54)
- Not involved in model building (4:28)
- Possibility of a Final Theory: d, e* (6:10)
- Beauty of String Theory for mathematicians (2:24)
- Right-left symmetry Lee, Yang, and Miss Wu: d* (8:40)
- Collaboration with T.D. Lee: a, b, c ** (7:00)
- Choosing Stony Brook University: b, f (9:51)
- Thoughts about Oppenheimer (9:14)
- Leaving Princeton for Stony Brook (2:56)
- Yang-Baxter Equation: d, e (5:25)
- Commonality between Gauge theory and statistical mechanics: d (2:57)
- First interactions with Jim Simons: b, d, e (12:42)
- Collaboration between mathematicians and physicists: d, e (3:07)
- First trip to China: a, b (12:51)
- Chairman Mao and the evolution of modern China: a (14:32)
- The Shaw Prize: f (7:47)
- Core mathematics and the Shaw prize: e, f (4:11)
- Chinese and American philosophies of education: a (7:00)
- Meeting Yo Yo Ma: b (4:32)
- Chinese and American relations in the 21st century: a (7:31)
- Scientific research, the future and the meaning of the world: b, f (7:14)
- Training Chinese scientists and leaders in America: a (9:15)
- Helping China overcome its inferiority complex: a (4:45)
A video interview, conducted on Feb. 22, 2011, with the Nobel Prize winning physicist Chen-Ning Yang.
