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Tsung-Dao Lee (Chinese: 李政道; pinyin: Lǐ Zhèngdào; born November 24, 1926) is 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.
Biographical. Tsung-Dao (T.D.) Lee was born in Shanghai, China, on November 24, 1926, the third of six children of Tsing-Kong Lee and Ming-Chang Chang. He received most of his high school education in Shanghai. During 1943-1944, he attended the National Chekiang University in Kweichow Province.
Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese-born American physicist who, with Chen Ning Yang, received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1957 for work in discovering violations of the principle of parity conservation, thus bringing about major refinements in particle physics theory. Learn more about Lee’s life and work.
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Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen Ning Yang discovered that the weak interaction violates the left-right symmetry law. They shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for their penetrating investigation of the parity laws and the elementary particles.
Tsung-Dao Lee talks about his Nobel Prize in Physics, tells the fascinating tale of how he taught himself physics when World War II interrupted his education (16:45), and how this eventually led to a scholarship at the University of Chicago, where he studied under Nobel Laureate Enrico Fermi (24:45).
Tsung Dao Lee is a Nobel laureate in physics who worked on elementary particles, field theory, and turbulence. He was a faculty member and a member of the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study from 1951 to 1962.
