Top 20 Living Physicists

Nationality: Chinese
Claim to Fame: Parity violation, Yang-Mills theory, Yang-Baxter equation
Institutions: Institute for Advanced Study, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Tsinghua University, University of Chicago
Significant Awards:
Nobel Prize in Physics (1957), Rumford Prize (1980), National Medal of Science (1986), Benjamin Franklin Medal (1993), Albert Einstein Medal (1995)