Chinese-American physicist Li Zhengdao has died.
A scientist who won the Nobel Prize for his work in particle physics has died aged 97.
Li Zhengdao died at his home in San Francisco, CGTN reported.
According to the source, the scientist is known for his pioneering contributions to particle physics, nuclear theory, and statistical mechanics.
The Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences explained that Li Zhengdao, who won the Nobel Prize for presenting the renormalizable model of field theory.
In 1956, Lee's work on parity violation in weak interactions changed the understanding of symmetry in physics.
It brought the scientist the Nobel Prize in Physics. Moreover, he was awarded the Albert Einstein Prize in Science in 1957.
Li Zhengdao thus became the second youngest scientist to receive the Nobel Prize at the age of 31.
