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Physicist, 82, to Marry 'Gift from God' Student
Reuters ^
| Dec. 17, 2004
| Reuters
Posted on 12/19/2004 11:03:21 PM PST by malboro_man
BEIJING (Reuters) - An 82-year-old Chinese Nobel physicist has popped the question to a 28-year-old student whom he described as his last gift from God, the Beijing Morning Post said on Friday.
Dr. Chen Ning Yang, known in China as Yang Zhenning, would marry student Wong Fan in January, the paper said.
Yang won the physics Nobel Prize in 1957 jointly with Lee Tsung-dao for their investigation of the so-called parity laws, which led to important discoveries about elementary particles.
Yang, whose wife died last year, is a professor at Tsinghua University. He and his wife met Wong in 1995, the newspaper said.
"She has very good English and she is nice and not calculated," the paper quoted Yang as saying. "She is my last gift bestowed by God."
A graduate student at Tsinghua told Reuters Yang had bags of energy.
"His heart is very young," she said. "I and my friends all sent our best wishes on the Internet. Because he has made such a great contribution to science, we all respect him very much."
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: physicist; weddingbells; yang
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Yang is definitely one of the most famous physicist in particle physics, but this marriage is yucky. Carl Sagan married his grad student, but the age difference was not this drastic.
To: malboro_man
Does the "ONE CHILD" policy apply to him and his bride?
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posted on
12/19/2004 11:06:53 PM PST
by
indoeuro
To: indoeuro
Does the "ONE CHILD" policy apply to him and his bride?I doubt it, thr guy's a national hero for winning the Nobel prize.
To: malboro_man
A graduate student at Tsinghua told Reuters Yang had bags of energy. Viagra.
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posted on
12/19/2004 11:10:50 PM PST
by
lowbridge
(Where do these newbies get off disagreeing with me? They're getting upitty)
To: malboro_man
ping (I know the outtawork Catskills comedians won't let me down)
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posted on
12/19/2004 11:11:57 PM PST
by
investigateworld
(( You may spel-chek at your option ))
To: malboro_man
He's 82. She's 28. There is a symmetry there.
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posted on
12/19/2004 11:14:15 PM PST
by
spodefly
(I've posted nothing but BTTT over 1000 times!!!)
To: malboro_man
How can it be "Wong" when it feels so Wight".
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posted on
12/19/2004 11:15:32 PM PST
by
dc-zoo
To: spodefly
"He's 82. She's 28. There is a symmetry there." Yes, but I think he violated the parity laws he discovered.
To: malboro_man
"She is my last gift bestowed by God."The wedding will be right after he gets out of prison for referring to God!
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posted on
12/19/2004 11:21:18 PM PST
by
The Real Deal
(The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist!)
To: malboro_man
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posted on
12/19/2004 11:26:58 PM PST
by
walford
(http://utopia-unmasked.us)
To: malboro_man
He also has bags of money. She will soon be in Paris for her 500 pairs of shoes.
To: malboro_man
Dr. Chen Ning Yang, known in China as Yang Zhenning, would marry student Wong Fan in January, the paper said. Bookmark to view comments later. Lots of potential here.
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posted on
12/19/2004 11:30:38 PM PST
by
Ken H
To: dc-zoo
How can it be "Wong" when it feels so Wight".
Didn't the Wong-White thing get Abercrombie and Fitch into trouble?
"Wong Brothers' cleaning service: Two Wongs can make it White."
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posted on
12/19/2004 11:37:46 PM PST
by
justt bloomin
(Moses smell the roses!)
To: malboro_man
A graduate student at Tsinghua told Reuters Yang had bags of energy. "Bags of energy"? Is that a common expression in China? I guess those will go well with his boxes of cheerfulness, buckets of enthusiasm, and barrels of happiness.
To: indoeuro; Physicist
Physicist???? I thought you were already married!!!
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posted on
12/19/2004 11:58:07 PM PST
by
jellybean
(Free 'Ole Crusty!)
To: malboro_man
She probably has a nice pair of spins.
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posted on
12/20/2004 12:24:51 AM PST
by
SpaceBar
To: malboro_man
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posted on
12/20/2004 12:25:54 AM PST
by
Pro-Bush
("Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks." Thomas Jefferson 1785)
To: indoeuro
If he fathers another child the world's gene pool is much improved.
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posted on
12/20/2004 12:28:52 AM PST
by
dr huer
To: malboro_man
I've met Prof. Yang on several occasions. He's an extremely gentle and modest man. Like Einstein, he has done much more important work than that for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize.
To: Physicist
Like Einstein, he has done much more important work than that for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize.You mean his work with Mills, right?
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posted on
12/20/2004 5:11:01 PM PST
by
RightWingAtheist
(Marxism-the creationism of the left)
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