In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.

In 1966 he moved to the State University of New York at Stony Brook and became the Albert Einstein Professor of Physics and the first director of a newly founded Institute for Theoretical Physics which is now known as C. First wife Tu died in the winter of 2003. He has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院 People's Republic of China) the Academia Sinica (中央研究院 Republic of China (Taiwan)) the Russian Academy of Sciences the Royal Society etc.

He and Tsung-dao Lee received the 1957 Nobel prize in physics for their work on parity nonconservation of weak interaction. Yang became a naturalized American citizen in 1964. Chen-Ning Franklin Yang (simplified Chinese: 杨振宁; traditional Chinese: 楊振寧; pinyin: Yáng Zhènníng) (born October 1 1922) is a Chinese-born American physicist who works on statistical mechanics and particle physics.