David Lee (physicist)
David Morris Lee | |
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Buckley Prize (1970) | |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | Cornell University Texas A&M University (2009-present) |
Doctoral advisor | Henry A. Fairbank |
David Morris Lee (born January 20, 1931) is an American physicist who shared the 1996
Personal life
Lee was born and raised in
After graduating from Yale in 1959, Lee took a job at Cornell University, where he was responsible for setting up the new Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics. Shortly after arriving at Cornell he met his future wife, Dana, then a PhD student in another department; the couple went on to have two sons.
Lee moved his laboratory from Cornell to Texas A&M University on November 16, 2009.[5][6][7]
Work
The work that led to Lee's Nobel Prize was performed in the early 1970s. Lee, together with
Lee's research also covered a number of other topics in low-temperature physics, particularly relating to liquid, solid and superfluid helium (4He, 3He and mixtures of the two). Particular discoveries include the antiferromagnetic ordering in solid helium-3,
As well as the Nobel Prize, other prizes won by Lee include the 1976
Lee is a member of the
Lee is currently teaching physics at Texas A&M University and continuing his (formerly Cornell-based) research program there as well.
Lee is one of the 20 American recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics to sign a letter addressed to President George W. Bush in May of 2008, urging him to "reverse the damage done to basic science research in the Fiscal Year 2008 Omnibus Appropriations Bill" by requesting additional emergency funding for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.[11]
See also
- List of Jewish Nobel laureates
- Timeline of low-temperature technology
References
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1996". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2009-10-04.
- ^ "David Lee | Department of Physics Cornell Arts & Sciences".
- ^ "David Lee - Faculty Member | TAMU Physics & Astronomy". 30 September 2019.
- ^ David Lee on Nobelprize.org including the Nobel Lecture, December 7, 1996 The Extraordinary Phases of Liquid 3He
- ^ http://media.www.thebatt.com/media/storage/paper657/news/2009/10/01/News/Nobel.Prize.Winner.Joins.Am.Faculty-3788924.shtml[permanent dead link]
- ^ "A&M lures Nobel Prize winner: Researcher of cold". 2009-09-29.
- ^ "Nobel Prize Winner to Join Texas A&M Physics Faculty | Texas A&M University, College of Science". Archived from the original on 2010-03-07. Retrieved 2009-10-12.
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- American Academy of Achievement.
- ^ "A Letter from America's Physics Nobel Laureates" (PDF).
External links
- Faculty page at Cornell
- David Lee on Nobelprize.org including the Nobel Lecture, December 7, 1996 The Extraordinary Phases of Liquid 3He