Chen ning yang biography channel

One in this series of interview programs hosted by Bill Moyers. In this edition, Moyers interviews Nobel Prize-winning physicist Chen Ning Yang, the Einstein professor of physics and head of the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

After Moyers gives a brief profile of Yang's life and career, the two discuss the following subjects, among others: the reaction in Communist China to the American citizenship of the first Chinese scientist to win a Nobel Prize; the reasons for American high-school students' poor knowledge of science in comparison to that of Asian students; the pros and cons of American and Chinese societies, and the effects of their national philosophies on educational systems; the competition in scientific research between the U.S., Japan, and other countries, and the likelihood that the U.S.

will soon fall behind in science and technology; the beauty that Yang finds in the ability of physics to distill the complexities of t