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Show (Lresearch RedChina to be topic of lecture "Science in the Peoples' Republic of China," will be the topic of a J I lre given by Dr. Chen-ning Yang December 4, in the Orson ! Spencer Auditorium at 7:00 p.m. J ! According to Dr. Yang, who has visited China twice in the last two p,Si he will report on what he's learned about scientific research I an( education there. He feels that in both there is a new spirit based 1 on the egalitarian principle, which produces a very interesting new i structure for scientific research and scientific organization, ad- iwistratively as well as spiritually. or. Yang is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and in ' 1 1957 shared the Nobel Prize. His best known research is that con- J ducted with T.D. Lee on the non-conservation of parity in certain I classes of elementary particle interactions. They postulated that the ! previously unquestioned principle of conservation of parity (which ! held that a physical system and its mirror image would behave ! identically) would not hold true in certain particle interactions. i From the theory of liquid helium to the structure of elementary i particles, Dr. Yang's research has produced major contributions to i knowledge, in many branches of physics. He has honorary doc- i torates from Princeton and Brooklyn Polytechnic and is the recipient i of the Albert Einstein Commemorative Award. Reading Benjamin Franklin's autobiography while still in China, Dr. Yang came to admire him so much as a person and scientist that J he adopted the name "Frank." He is known to his friends in the J United States by this name. J ! He studied at Southwest Associated University in Kunming where ! ! tie received his B.S. and completed the equivalent of a Master's i degree at Tsinghua University. In 1945, Dr. Yang came to the United t States on a fellowship and studied with Enrico Fermi and Edward i Teller at the University of Chicago, where he received his Ph. D. in . 1 1948. S i a A faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Prin- J ceton, Dr. Yang spent his summers at the Brookhaven National 7 Laboratory until his appointment in 1965 to the newly established Einstein Chair in Science at the State University of New York at I SlonV Brook. He is also director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics there. i Resented by the Department of Physics at the University, the J , lecture is one of the "Frontiers of Science" free public lectures. J M . |