主题：【文摘】【原创】看看美国人是怎么评价Yang-Mills理论的 -- 嫖姚校尉

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http://www.cchere.com/article/394813

说的Yang-Mills方程只是个在华人物理界有名的理论，首先这个说法很荒谬。物理学就是物理学，不存在华人的或非华人的物理学，对的在哪都是对的。Yang-Mills方程不因为Yang是中国人就是对的，也不因为他娶了个年轻老婆就是错的。以前纳粹德国的时候，倒是区分过犹太人和非犹太人的物理，结果是世界物理的中心由德国移到了美国。

copy一段他的Bower奖的citation,注意一下那几个和他相提并论的人名，里面那个Franklin不是别人，就是杨振宁的英文名

Chen Ning Yang of the State University of New York at

Stony Brook received the Bower Award and Prize for

Achievement in Science. This is the first year that this

$250,000 award was given. The citation for the award to

Yang reads: "For the formulation of a general field theory

which synthesizes the physical laws of nature and provides

us with an understanding of the fundamental forces of the

universe. As one of the conceptual masterpieces of the twentieth

century explaining the interaction of subatomic particles,

his theory has profoundly reshaped the development

of physics and modern geometry during the last forty

years. This theoretical model, already ranked alongside the

works of Newton, Maxwell, and Einstein, will surely have

a comparable influence on future generations. These scientific

contributions combined with his championing of understanding

between China and the Western world and his

promotion of science education among the youth in all corners

of the globe reflect the scientific and humanitarian

genius of Franklin himself." Yang is the Albert Einstein Professor

and director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics

at Stony Brook. He is the codeveloper of the celebrated

Yang-Mills theory that has had such a profound effect on

mathematics and physics.

Gerard t'Hooft of the Institute for Theoretical Physics

at Utrecht University received the Franklin Medal "for his

pivotal role in laying the foundation for a unified field theory

of the fundamental forces in nature." It is now generally

believed that there are four fundamental forces in nature:

the electromagnetic force, the gravitational force,

and the weak and strong forces in particle physics. t'Hooft

has proven that gauge theories satisfy a crucial constraint

required for mathematical consistency and that they provide

the proper framework for a unified theory of electromagnetic

and weak forces.