Chinese Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Yang Chen-Ning Dies at 103

Chinese American Nobel Prize laureate of physics Yang Chen-ning delivers a speech themed "My Life" at the Northeast Normal University in Changchun of Jilin Province, China, on Sept. 7, 2006. China Photos/Getty Images

BEIJING—Chinese Nobel Prize-winning physicist Yang Chen-ning, one of the most influential scientists in modern physics, died in Beijing on Saturday. He was 103.

The Tsinghua University, where he studied and served as a professor, said in a statement that Yang died of an illness, without sharing further details.