Tsung-Dao Lee was a University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University in New York City, where he taught from 1953 until his retirement in 2012.
17 Facts About Tsung-Dao Lee
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In 1957, at the age of 30, Lee won the Nobel Prize in Physics with Chen Ning Yang 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 legendary Wu experiment.
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Tsung-Dao Lee remains the youngest Nobel laureate in the science fields after World War II.
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Tsung-Dao Lee is the third-youngest Nobel laureate in sciences in history after William L Bragg and Werner Heisenberg.
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Since he became a naturalized American citizen in 1962, Tsung-Dao Lee is the youngest American ever to have won a Nobel Prize.
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Tsung-Dao Lee was born in Shanghai, China, with his ancestral home in nearby Suzhou.
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Tsung-Dao Lee's father Chun-kang Lee, one of the first graduates of the University of Nanking, was a chemical industrialist and merchant who was involved in China's early development of modern synthesized fertilizer.
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Tsung-Dao Lee received his secondary education in Shanghai and Jiangxi.
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Nevertheless, in 1943, Tsung-Dao Lee directly applied to and was admitted by the National Che Kiang University.
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However, again disrupted by a further Japanese invasion, Tsung-Dao Lee continued at the National Southwestern Associated University in Kunming the next year in 1945, where he studied with Professor Wu Ta-You.
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In 1946, Tsung-Dao Lee went to the University of Chicago and was selected by Professor Enrico Fermi to become his PhD student.
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Tsung-Dao Lee served as research associate and lecturer in physics at the University of California at Berkeley from 1950 to 1951.
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In 1953, Tsung-Dao Lee joined Columbia University, where he remained until retirement.
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Tsung-Dao Lee realized in early 1956 that the key to the puzzle was parity non-conservation.
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Besides particle physics, Tsung-Dao Lee has been active in statistical mechanics, astrophysics, hydrodynamics, many body system, solid state, lattice QCD.
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From 1997 to 2003, Tsung-Dao Lee was director of the RIKEN-BNL Research Center, which together with other researchers from Columbia, completed a 1 teraflops supercomputer QCDSP for lattice QCD in 1998 and a 10 teraflops QCDOC machine in 2001.
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In 1998, Tsung-Dao Lee established the Chun-Tsung Endowment in memory of his wife, who had died three years earlier.