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Nobel Prize-winning physicist Tsung-Dao Lee has died at age 97
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Nobel Prize-winning physicist Tsung-Dao Lee has died at age 97

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By Tycoon Herald 4 Min Read Published August 6, 2024
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Nobel Prize-winning physicist Tsung-Dao Lee has died at age 97

In 1957, Tsung-Dao Lee (third from left) turned one of many youngest scientists to obtain a Nobel Prize.

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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chinese language-American physicist Tsung-Dao Lee, who in 1957 turned the second-youngest scientist to obtain a Nobel Prize, died Sunday at his residence in San Francisco at age 97, based on a Chinese language college and a analysis middle.

Lee, whose work superior the understanding of particle physics, was one of many nice masters within the discipline, based on a joint obituary launched Monday by the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute at Shanghai Jiao Tong College and the Beijing-based China Middle for Superior Science and Expertise.

Lee, a naturalized U.S. citizen since 1962, was additionally a professor emeritus at Columbia College in New York.

Robert Oppenheimer, referred to as the daddy of the atomic bomb, as soon as praised Lee as one of the good theoretical physicists of the time, whose work confirmed “remarkable freshness, versatility and style.”

Lee was born in Shanghai on Nov. 24, 1926, the third of six kids to a service provider father, Tsing-Kong Lee, and a mom, Ming-Chang Chang, who was a religious Catholic, based on native newspaper Wenhui Each day.

He went to highschool in Shanghai and attended Nationwide Chekiang College in Guizhou province and Nationwide Southwest Related College in Kunming in Yunnan province.

After his sophomore 12 months, he acquired a scholarship from the Chinese language authorities to attend graduate college in the USA.

Between 1946 and 1950, he studied on the College of Chicago beneath Enrico Fermi, a Nobel laureate in physics.

Within the early Nineteen Fifties, Lee labored on the Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin, on the College of California at Berkeley and on the Institute for Superior Examine in Princeton, N.J.

His analysis in elementary particles, statistical mechanics, astrophysics and discipline idea, amongst others, was standing out.

In 1953, he joined Columbia College as an assistant professor. Three years later, at age 29, he turned the youngest-ever full professor there. He developed a mannequin for finding out varied quantum phenomena referred to as the “Lee model.”

In 1957, Lee was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics along with Chen-Ning Yang for work exploring the symmetry of subatomic particles as they work together with the power that holds atoms collectively. At 31, Lee was the second-youngest scientist to obtain the excellence.

He gained many different accolades together with the Albert Einstein Award in Science, the Galileo Galilei Medal and the G. Bude Medal, in addition to honorary doctorates and titles from organizations world wide.

As China turned extra open to worldwide exchanges within the Seventies, Lee returned to his residence nation on repeated visits to provide lectures and encourage the event of sciences, based on state media.

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