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Chen Ning Yang, 82, married 28-year-old student

Chen Ning Yang, a 82-year-old Nobel Prize-winning physicist, married Weng Fan, a 28-year-old graduate student. It was the hottest social topic in China in 2004.

Weng, born in July 1976 in Chaozhou City, is a resident of Shantou. She was working on a masters degree in translation at the Guangzhou University of Foreign Studies when she married Yang.

Yang is a Chinese-born American. He was born in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province, in 1922. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with his colleague Tsung Dao Lee in 1957 for their joint work in upsetting the principle of conservation of parity as a fundamental law of nuclear physics. Since late 2003, the famed leading scientist has been giving regular lectures exclusive for freshman in China's elite Tsinghua University.

They first met at Shantou University, South China's Guangdong Province in 1995 when Yang, then accompanied by his late wife Chih Li Tu, elder daughter of late KMT general Du Yuming, attended an international physics seminar. Weng then worked as an interpreter at the seminar and happened to receive and serve the Yangs during the meeting.

Yang was deeply impressed by Weng's considerate character, savvy and excellent command of English. Wen was then a freshman of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. The two reestablished contact in the February of 2004 and then fell in love with each other.

It will be the second marriage for both of the two. Yang survived his first wife Chih Li Tu the year before the second marriage. Weng got married shortly after graduation and soon got divorced.

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