Why Was UNC Chapel Hill Photonics Prof. Yan Murdered???

A postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago from 2011 to 2015, Yan helped develop a new material called "optical matter" consisting of metal nanoparticles held together by light among other things in a highly impressive reume:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C22&q=Zijie+Yan&btnG=



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Zijie_Yan



A Memorial Fund Raiser for Professor Yi's Daughters:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/in-loving-memory-of-prof-zijie-yan?utm_campaign=m_pd+share-sheet&utm_content=undefined&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_term=undefined



Behind the scenes of the 1957 Chapel Hill Conference on the

role of gravitation in physics

https://royalsoc.org.au/images/pdf/journal/154-2-Rickles.pdf



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_bead_argument