Chen-Ning Yang vs Milan Kundera
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Compare the life timelines of Chen-Ning Yang (1922–2025) and Milan Kundera (1929–2023) side by side. Their lives overlapped for 94 years, from 1929 to 2023.
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Chen-Ning Yang (1922–2025)
- — Born in Hefei, Anhui Province, China Verified
- — Graduated from National Southwestern Associated University in Kunming Verified
- — Moved to the United States for graduate study Verified
- — Earned PhD from the University of Chicago Verified
- — Published Yang-Mills gauge theory with Robert Mills Verified
- — Proposed parity non-conservation in weak interactions with Tsung-Dao Lee Verified
- — Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics Verified
- — Became founding director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook Verified
- — Returned to China to join Tsinghua University Verified
- — Died in Beijing, China Verified
Milan Kundera (1929–2023)
- — Born in Brno, Czechoslovakia Verified
- — Studied at Charles University and the Film and TV School (FAMU) in Prague Verified
- — Expelled from the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia for the first time Verified
- — Published his first novel, The Joke (Žert) Verified
- — Married Věra Hrabánková Verified
- — Expelled from the Communist Party a second time and banned from publishing Verified
- — Emigrated to France Verified
- — Stripped of Czechoslovak citizenship; became a French citizen in 1981 Verified
- — Published The Unbearable Lightness of Being Verified
- — Died in Paris Verified