Nobel laureate Chen Ning Yang and Turing Award-winning computer scientist Andrew Chi-Chih Yao have become full members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, after giving up their US citizenship and becoming Chinese citizens.
Yang and Yao had been the first two foreign members of the Academy to apply to become official academicians. Chen Ning Yang, together with Tsung-dao Lee, was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics. Andrew Chi-Chih Yao received the Turing Award, the most prestigious award in computer science, in 2000.
