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Tsung-Dao Lee
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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science · Chinese-American physicist (1926–2024) · physicist · university teacher · theoretical physicist · also Tsung-Dao Lee, T. D. Lee, Tsung Dao Lee, Li Zhengdao, Lee
Born 24 November 1926 · Died 4 August 2024 · Q183679
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2025· 1 entry
2024· 6 entries
Wall Street Journal: Tsung-Dao Lee, Nobel Winner in Physics, Dies at 97
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The Washington Post: Tsung-Dao Lee, who helped overturn ‘law’ of physics, dies at 97
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WWNO: Nobel Prize-winning physicist Tsung-Dao Lee has died at age 97
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Phys.org: Nobel Prize-winning physicist Tsung-Dao Lee dies at age 97
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Physics World: Tsung-Dao Lee: Nobel laureate famed for work on parity violation dies aged 97
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Died 2024-08-04.
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2020· 1 entry
Published “SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python” in Nature Methods — cited 36,804 times.
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2019· 1 entry
Published “Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2” in Nature Biotechnology — cited 21,037 times.
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2014· 1 entry
Where it is on display in the Tsung-Dao Lee Library
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Great Immigrants Award (2009).
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2008· 1 entry
Published “Measurement of the Elastic Properties and Intrinsic Strength of Monolayer Graphene” in Science — cited 19,416 times.
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2003· 1 entry
Published “Common method biases in behavioral research: A critical review of the literature and recommended remedies.” in Journal of Applied Psychology — cited 68,150 times.
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1998· 2 entries
Lee established the Chun-Tsung Endowment (秦惠䇹—李政道中国大学生见习基金) in memory of his wife, who had died three years earlier
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And a 10 teraflops QCDOC machine in 2005
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1995· 2 entries
Won Matteucci Medal (1995).
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Published “A smooth particle mesh Ewald method” in The Journal of Chemical Physics — cited 21,575 times.
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1993· 1 entry
Won Oskar Klein Medal (1993).
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1988· 1 entry
Published “Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density” in Physical Review B — cited 95,903 times.
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1985· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the Peking University (1985).
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1983· 2 entries
“Can Time Be a Discrete Dynamical Variable?”
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Lee wrote a paper entitled, "Can Time Be a Discrete Dynamical Variable
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1975· 1 entry
Lee and collaborators established the field of non-topological solitons, which led to his work on soliton stars and black holes throughout the 1980s and 1990s
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1966· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1966).
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1964· 1 entry
Lee, with Michael Nauenberg, analyzed the divergences connected with particles of zero rest mass, and described a general method known as the KLN theorem for dealing with these divergences, which still plays an important
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1963· 1 entry
Lee is also the youngest American ever to have won a Nobel Prize
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1957· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1957).
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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 wel
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1953· 1 entry
Lee joined Columbia University, where he remained until retirement
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1950· 2 entries
For his research work Hydrogen Content of White Dwarf Stars
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And had two sons: James Lee (Chinese: 李中清; pinyin: Lǐ Zhōngqīng) and Stephen Lee (Chinese: 李中汉; pinyin: Lǐ Zhōnghàn)
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1946· 1 entry
Lee went to the University of Chicago and was selected by Professor Enrico Fermi to become his PhD student
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1945· 1 entry
Where he studied with Professor Wu Ta-You
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1943· 1 entry
Lee directly applied to and was admitted by the National Chekiang University (now Zhejiang University)
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1926· 1 entry
Born 1926-11-24.
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