Nobel Prize in Physics 1957

Chen Ning Yang

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Prize share: 1/2

Tsung-Dao (T.D.) Lee

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Prize share: 1/2

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1957 was awarded jointly to Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao (T.D.) Lee "for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles"

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