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A man queues to enter the memorial hall at the Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University to pay homage to the late physicist Chen Ning Yang, who passed away in Beijing on Saturday at age 103. A Nobel laureate and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yang, a former professor at the university, was widely regarded as one of the 20th century’s greatest physicists and a role model for generations of Chinese scientists, whose achievements boosted national confidence in scientific development.Xinhua