A Quote by Chen-Ning Yang

There's a real difference of what one believed was one's chief responsibility between American professors and Chinese professors. This was vividly revealed to me when I compared what I could learn in Chicago and what I could learn in China.

Chen-Ning Yang

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Chen-Ning Yang
American - Physicist
Born: October 1, 1922

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