Physicist, 82, to Marry 'Gift from God' Student Who is 28

[Champ]

BEIJING (Reuters) - An 82-year-old Chinese Nobel physicist has popped the question to a 28-year-old student whom he described as his last gift from God, the Beijing Morning Post said on Friday.

Dr. Chen Ning Yang, known in China as Yang Zhenning, would marry student Wong Fan in January, the paper said.

Yang won the physics Nobel Prize in 1957 jointly with Lee Tsung-dao for their investigation of the so-called parity laws, which led to important discoveries about elementary particles.

Yang, whose wife died last year, is a professor at Tsinghua University. He and his wife met Wong in 1995, the newspaper said.

"She has very good English and she is nice and not calculated," the paper quoted Yang as saying. "She is my last gift bestowed by God."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=583&ncid=583&e=4&u=/nm/20041217/od_nm/odd_china_marriage_dc

[redqueen]

1. Awwww

Isn't that sweet. :)

[demnan]

2. No fool

like an old fool.

[underpants]

3. A picture of the couple

[eek]

7. OK, so I'm not a good liberal

because I am too closed minded not to say
"guh-ross".

[JaneEyrez]

15. Are you sure that's not Woody Allen and Soon Yi?

ewwww is all I've got to say.

[Deja Q]

4. So, what's that 'god' getting after she gives him a fatal heart attack?

:eyes:

BTW, her name of 'Wong Fan' is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too easy. :evilgrin:

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

10. Well, to be fair...

He's a college professor working a communist-run state university. Although he may have "bags of energy," chances are he doesn't have bags of money.

Wong Fan...heh, heh.

[joeybee12]

5. Sad thing is, when I'm 82, I won't be righ or famous enough to get a 28

year old! Life is not fair!

[skygazer]

9. Sad thing is

When a 28 year old woman marries an 82 year old man, everyone says, "oh, lucky him."

But when it's the other way around, they say, "why would a young guy like that want to marry an old hag?"

[flamingyouth]

12. Ain't that the truth

:thumbsup:

[joeybee12]

13. Well, I'm a guy, and I want a 28 year old guy when I'm 82--not sure if

they'll say "lucky me" or "what an old hag"!:shrug:

But you're right--there is a double standard.

[derby378]

6. "Don't that nice?"

Wonder how much money he's got?

[Wickerman]

8. He's known her since she was 19?

cradle-robber!

actually, whatver makes the two of them happy.

[wtmusic]

11. It's going to require some special laws of physics to...

oh, nevermind. :P

[RagingInMiami]

14. Ahh, the magic of Viagra

[NewJeffCT]

16. if they live in Beijing...

Why does it matter if she has very good English?