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TIL In 2017, 94 year old Nobel laureate Yang Zhenning gave up their American citizenship to become CAS Chinese academicians, the highest academic title in China. Yang renounced his American citizenship in 2015 and his father had never forgiven him for giving up his Chinese nationality

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