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Chen Ning Yang gets married again
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-12-25 00:04
Chen Ning Yang, a 82-year-old Nobel Prize-winning physicist, married Weng
Fan, a 28-year-old graduate student, Friday.
Chinese American
Nobel laureate Chen Ning Yang, 82, and his fiancee Weng Fan, 28, arrive at
the Bureau of Civil Affairs of Shantou City, South China's Guangdong
Province for marriage registration Friday, December 24,
2004.[newsphoto] |
The newlyweds obtained the
marriage certificate at the foreign marriage registration division of the
Shantou City Civil Affairs Bureau in south China's Guangdong Province in the
company of their relatives.
According to Chinese marriage registration rule, if the spouse of a mainland
citizen is a resident of Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan or overseas Chinese residing
abroad, the newlyweds should register at the marriage registration organ of the
city where the mainland citizen lives.
Weng, born in July 1976 in Chaozhou City, is a resident of Shantou. She is
working on a masters degree in translation at the Guangzhou University of
Foreign Studies. The couple flew from Beijing to Shantou Thursday.
Yang is a Chinese-born American. He was born in Hefei, east China's Anhui
Province, in 1922. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with his colleague Tsung
Dao Lee in 1957 for their joint work in upsetting the principle of conservation
of parity as a fundamental law of nuclear physics.
Yang's former wife, Du Zhili, died of illness in October 2003. Two months
later, Yang retired from his post in the United States and settled down at
Beijing-based Tsinghua University, where he gave lectures on basic physics to
freshmen and offered academic guidance to some postgraduates.
Yang and Weng got to know each other in 1995 when Yang and his former wife
attended an international physics conference held in Shantou. Weng was
dispatched to receive the old couple as a freshman.
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