New biography captures Yang Chen-Ning's youthful wonder A student's hopeful emails to two legends of physics led to a friendship that inspired an intimate portrait of the Nobel laureate, Wang Qian reports. By Wang Qian | China Daily Global | Updated: 2025-11-04 08:46

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202511/04/WS69094ceaa310f215074b8c00.html When Lin Kailiang, a doctoral student, sent two emails in November 2012 to two titans of 20th-century physics — the 90-year-old Nobel laureate Yang Chen-Ning and the 89-year-old visionary, Freeman Dyson — he didn't expect it would forever alter the trajectory of his life.