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Tsung-Dao Lee
Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926)
Life at a glance
- Died
- 2024 · August 4
Their story
Who they were
Biography Family Lee was born in Shanghai , China, with his ancestral home in nearby Suzhou . His father Chun-kang Lee ( 李駿康 ; Lǐ Jùn-kāng ), 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 . Lee's grandfather Chong-tan Lee ( 李仲覃 ; Lǐ Zhòng-tán ) was the first Chinese Methodist Episcopal senior pastor of St. John's Church in Suzhou  [ zh ] . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Tsung-Dao Lee 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 professor emeritus at Columbia University in New York City, where he taught from 1953 until his retirement in 2012.
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