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发帖数: 629 | 1 Just read the book Tsung-Dao Lee wrote about his relationship/breakup with
Yang in 2008.
To me, it is very evidencing and convincing, do most of people favor Lee's
story and support him?
my personal opinion is: Yang is really troubled with fame and recognition,
so sad for a well-known scientist. At least, Yang is an outstanding
physicist/mathematician. welcome some discussion. | s*******u
发帖数: 1855 | 2 I read some articles also. Below are my conclusions:
1) Yang is definitely a much better physicist than Lee. The violation of
parity law in weak interaction is Lee's topmost contribution, while it is at
most the 2nd greatest contribution from Yang. The gauge field theory
contribution from Yang is way more important than the parity violation work.
Many physics major believe Yang is among top 15 or top 20, if not top 10,
among all physicists in 20th century. Lee? Top 100?
2) Yang also should take more blame in the break-up. Yang is more senior
than Lee, and their collaboration is more like senior-junior collaboration.
Consider you are an AP w/o tenure, and you work with a tenure full professor
. The collaboration results in two papers on one same result. For one, you
are the first author. For the other, that full professor is the first author
. Later, the two fight for the credit. What is the reality behind that? No
doubt the junior one contributes more.
And it is very clear that the original idea comes from Lee.
I tend to believe: Yang worked on more topics, and Lee focused more on this
topic. Lee came with the original idea, and Yang helped in math/analytic
reasoning... |
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