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Tsung-Dao Lee
Chinese-American physicist (1926–2024)
In this Chinese name, the family name is Lee.
Tsung-Dao Lee (Chinese: 李政道; pinyin: Lǐ Zhèngdào; November 24, 1926 – August 4, 2024) was a Chinese-American physicist, known for his work on parity violation, the Lee–Yang theorem, particle physics, relativistic heavy ion (RHIC) physics, nontopological solitons, and soliton stars. He was a university professoremeritus at Columbia University in New York City, where he taught from 1953 until his retirement in 2012.[1]
In 1957, at the age of 30, Lee won the Nobel Prize in Physics with Chen Ning Yang[2] for their work on the violation of the parity law in weak interactions, which Chien-Shiung Wu experimentally proved from 1956 to 1957, with her well known Wu experiment.
Lee remains the youngest Nobel laureate in the science fields after World War II. He is the third-youngest Nobel laureate in sciences in history after William L. Bragg (who won the prize at 25 with his father William H. Bragg in 1915) and Werner Heisenberg (who won in 1932 also a
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Biography of Professor Tsung-Dao Lee
Professor Tsung-Dao Lee was a pioneering physicist whose groundbreaking work has left an indelible mark on multiple fields, including quantum field theory, particle physics, nuclear physics, statistical mechanics, fluid dynamics, and astrophysics. In 1956, in collaboration with Chen-Ning Yang, he proposed the theory of parity non-conservation in weak interactions, fundamentally altering our understanding of symmetry in the physical world. This revolutionary discovery opened new avenues for exploring the microscopic world and significantly advanced the field of physics, earning them the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Throughout his illustrious career, Professor Lee made significant contributions across a wide spectrum of scientific disciplines. His outstanding achievements were recognized globally, leading to his election as a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), and Italy's Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze (National Academy of Sciences).
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Tsung-Dao Lee
Main publications
Books: T.D. Lee, Particle Physics and Introduction to Field Theory, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1981; T.D. Lee, Selected Papers, Vols 1-3, Ed. G. Feinberg, Birkhauser Boston Inc., 1986; Thirty Years Since Parity Nonconservation, A Symposium for T.D. Lee, Birkhauser Boston Inc., 1988; T.D. Lee, Symmetries, Asymmetries, and the World of Particles, University of Washington Press, 1988; T.D. Lee, Selected Papers, 1985-96, eds. H.C. Ren and Y. Pang, Gordon and Breach, 1998; Science and Art, eds. T.D. Lee and Liu Huaizu, Shanghai Science and Technology Publisher, 2000; T.D. Lee, The Challenge from Physics, China Economics Publisher, 2002; T.D. Lee, Response to the Dispute of Discovery of Parity Violation, eds. Ji Cheng, Liu Huaizu and Teng Li (in Chinese), Gansu Science and Technology Publisher, 2004, Cosmos Books Ltd. Hong Kong, 2004. Articles: Lee, T.D., et al., Interaction of Mesons with Nucleons and Light Particles, Physical Review, 75, p. 905 (1949); Lee, T.D., Hydrogen Content and Energy Productive Mechanism of White Dwar
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