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Yang Dong

A physicist whose death becomes one of the central absences in the present-day investigation.

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Absent physicist at the center of the mystery

From Chapter 2

Yang Dong

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Role in the story

The Three-Body Problem

Encountered by Chapter 2

Absent physicist at the center of the mystery

Her death connects scientific despair with the hidden history of first contact.

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