
Stony Brook Gets $1M Gift to Establish Endowed Physics and Astronomy Chair
Patch.com
The Yang Chen Ning – Deng Wei Endowed Chair in Physics and Astronomy, made possible by the gift from Dr. Deng Wei, honors C.N. Yang, who won a Nobel prize in 1957, joined the Stony Brook University faculty in 1966, and established what would ...

Short Science, May 19, 2013
South China Morning Post
In 1957, 35-year-old Yang shared the Nobel Prize for physics with his colleague Tsung Dao Lee for their joint work in upsetting the principle of conservation of parity as a fundamental law of nuclear physics. According to Mo Yan, the 2012 Nobel ...

Dr. Deng Wei Donates $1M for Endowed Chair in Physics & Astronomy at Stony ...
Newswise (press release)
Introduced to President Stanley in Beijing in March, Dr. Deng made the gift to honor Dr. C.N. Yang, who, in the years after he received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1957, joined the Stony Brook University faculty in 1966 as its Einstein Professor ...

Physics Lab Tech Pleads Guilty, Receives Sentence In Cocaine Case
Huffington Post
Francis Crick (1916-2004). It has been reported that Crick, the Nobel Prize-winning English molecular biologist, first envisioned the double helix structure of the DNA molecule while under the influence of LSD. In fact, though <a ...