Niels Bohr, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, saw the complementarity of yin and yang as a powerful representation of the dual characteristic of subatomic matter as both wave and particle. Bohr was so impressed by the Chinese conception of the universe that when he was knighted and had to design a coat of arms, he incorporated the yin-yang symbol as its central motif.
Interesting.bohr and the coat of yin yang
