Ye Zhetai

Character from The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin

Tsinghua physics professor murdered on a struggle-session stage in 1966 for refusing to renounce relativity, the big bang, and the Copenhagen interpretation — the trauma at the bottom of the entire trilogy.

Also known as: Professor Ye

What They Know

• He taught Einstein's relativity, quantum mechanics, and the big bang theory at Tsinghua and refused to recant any of it under struggle session
• He was Yang Weining's mentor in experimental physics, which is why Yang would later recognize and recruit Wenjie
• He left Wenjie a small library of Western physics texts that survived the burnings — her education in private

Connections

• parent_of — ye_wenjie
• loves — shao_lin
• teaches — yang_weining
• located_in — tsinghua_university

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