Dr. Chen Ning Yang, the first Chinese to win the Noble Prize in Physics is currently the Mei I-chi Honorary Distinguished Chair Professor at NTHU. Born in Anhui, he was educated within the Tsing Hua educational institutions, from grade school to graduate school. He entered the graduate program at University of Chicago in 1944 and received his doctoral degree in 1948. For the discovery of parity nonconservation of weak interaction, he and Prof. Tsung-Dao Lee were presented with the Noble Prize in l956 and both become the hero of the Chinese people all over the world. While continuing his research in the field of physics, he is also a true patriot who spares no effort to support the Chinese scientific community on both sides of the Strait.

He and Mrs. Yang returned to campus on March 10th and stayed for a week to lecture, conduct seminars and consult with faculty members and graduate students at the Department of Physics. His first lecture was aiming at the general public and was given at the university auditorium packed with NTHU students and more than a thousand high school students coming from as far as Taipei City and Chang Hua County. Using the life and professional histories of three famous physicists, Professor Yang vividly told the audiences that physics as a scientific discipline, is not as difficult as most students used to think. In fact, it could be an easy and interesting subject if one has the proper dosage of curiosity about the world surrounding them.