Tsung-Dao Lee
Tsung-Dao Lee | |
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李政道 | |
National Che Kiang University
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Known for | |
Awards | Nobel Prize in Physics (1957)
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
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Thesis | Hydrogen Content and Energy-productive Mechanism of White Dwarfs (1950) |
Doctoral advisor | Enrico Fermi |
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Chinese name | |
Hanyu Pinyin | Lǐ Zhèngdào |
Wade–Giles | Li3 Cheng4-tao4 |
IPA | [lì ʈʂə̂ŋ.tâʊ] |
Wu | |
Romanization | Lî Tsěn-dâu |
Modern physics |
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Quantum field theory |
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History |
Standard Model of particle physics |
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Statistical mechanics |
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Tsung-Dao Lee (
In 1957, at the age of 30, Lee won the
Lee remains the youngest Nobel laureate in the science fields after
Biography
Family
Lee was born in
Lee has four brothers and one sister. Educator
Early life
Lee received his secondary education in Shanghai (High School Affiliated to Soochow University, 東吳大學附屬中學) and
However, again disrupted by a further Japanese invasion, Lee continued at the National Southwestern Associated University in Kunming the next year in 1945, where he studied with Professor Wu Ta-You.
Life and research in US
Professor Wu nominated Lee for a Chinese government fellowship for graduate study in the US. In 1946, Lee went to the
In 1953, Lee joined
In the early 1960s, Lee and collaborators initiated the important field of high-energy neutrino physics. In 1964, Lee, with M. Nauenberg, analyzed the divergences connected with particles of zero rest mass, and described a general method known as the
Besides particle physics, Lee has been active in statistical mechanics, astrophysics, hydrodynamics, many body system, solid state, lattice QCD. In 1983, Lee wrote a paper entitled, "Can Time Be a Discrete Dynamical Variable?"; which led to a series of publications by Lee and collaborators on the formulation of fundamental physics in terms of difference equations, but with exact invariance under continuous groups of translational and rotational transformations. Beginning in 1975, 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.
From 1997 to 2003, Lee was director of the RIKEN-BNL Research Center (now director emeritus), which together with other researchers from Columbia, completed a 1 teraflops supercomputer QCDSP for lattice QCD in 1998 and a 10 teraflops QCDOC machine in 2001. Most recently,[specify] Lee and Richard M. Friedberg have developed a new method to solve the Schrödinger equation, leading to convergent iterative solutions for the long-standing quantum degenerate double-wall potential and other instanton problems. They have also done work on the neutrino mapping matrix.
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 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.[6]
Educational activities
Soon after the re-establishment of China-American
In 1998, 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. The Chun-Tsung scholarships, supervised by the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia (New York), are awarded to undergraduates, usually in their 2nd or 3rd year, at six universities, which are
Personal life
Chin and Lee were married in 1950 and have two sons: James Lee (Chinese: 李中清; pinyin: Lǐ Zhōngqīng; born 1952) and Stephen Lee (Chinese: 李中汉; pinyin: Lǐ Zhōnghàn; born 1956).[citation needed]
Honours and awards
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1957)
- G. Bude Medal, Collège de France (1969, 1977)
- Galileo Galilei Medal (1979)
- Order of Merit, Grande Ufficiale, Italy (1986)
- Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture and Medal (1993)
- Science for Peace Prize (1994)
- China National-International Cooperation Award (1995)
- Matteucci Medal (1995)
- Naming of Small Planet 3443 as the 3443 Leetsungdao(1997)
- New York City Science Award (1997)
- Pope Joannes Paulus Medal (1999)
- Ministero dell'Interno Medal of the Government of Italy (1999)
- New York Academy of Science Award (2000)
- The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star, Japan (2007)
- Memberships
- National Academy of Sciences
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- American Philosophical Society
- Academia Sinica
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Third World Academy of Sciences
- Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Selected publications
- Technical reports
- "Conservation Laws in Weak Interactions," Columbia University, United States Department of Energy (through predecessor agency the Atomic Energy Commission, March 1957).
- "Weak Interactions," Columbia University, United States Department of Energy (through predecessor agency the Atomic Energy Commission, June 1957).
- (with C.N. Yang) "Elementary Particles and Weak Interactions," Brookhaven National Laboratory, United States Department of Energy (through predecessor agency the Atomic Energy Commission, October 1957).
- "History of Weak Interactions," Columbia University, United States Department of Energy (through predecessor agency the Atomic Energy Commission), July 1970).
- "High Energy Electromagnetic and Weak Interaction Processes," Brookhaven National Laboratory, United States Department of Energy (through predecessor agency the Atomic Energy Commission, January 11, 1972).
- Books
- Lee, T.D. (1981). Particle Physics and Introduction to Field Theory. Newark: Harwood Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-3-7186-0032-8.[7]
- Lee, T.D.; Feinberg, G. (1986). Selected Papers, Vols 13. Boston; Basel; Stuttgart: Birkhäuser. ISBN 978-0-8176-3344-8.
- Lee, T.D. (1988). Ed. R. Novick: Thirty Year's Since Parity Nonconservation. Boston; Basel; Stuttgart: Birkhäuser. ISBN 978-0-8176-3375-2.
- Lee, T.D. (1988). Symmetries, Asymmetries, and the World of Particles. Seattle: University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0-295-96519-2.[8]
- Lee, T.D.; Ren, H. C.; Pang, Y. (1998). Selected Papers, 1985-1996. Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach. ISBN 978-90-5699-609-3.
- Lee, T.D. (2000). Science and Art. Shanghai: Shanghai Scientific and Technical Publisher. ISBN 978-7-5323-5609-6.
- Lee, T.D. (2002). The Challenge from Physics. Beijing: China Economics Publisher. ISBN 978-7-5017-5622-3.
- Lee, T.D.; Cheng, Ji; Huaizu, Liu; Li, Teng (2004). Response to the Dispute of Discovery of Parity Violation (in Chinese). Lanzhou, Gansu: Gansu Science and Technology Publishing House. ISBN 978-7-5424-0929-4.
See also
References
- ^ Home | Columbia News Archived April 30, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1957". The Nobel Foundation. Retrieved November 1, 2014.
- ^ "Suzhou St. John Church". Archived from the original on July 13, 2015.
- ^ "HowStuffWorks "Lee, Tsung Dao"". July 2010. Archived from the original on September 30, 2012. Retrieved November 8, 2010.
- ^ Siegel, Ethan (October 7, 2019). "This One Award Was The Biggest Injustice In Nobel Prize History". Forbes.
- ^ "A Letter from America's Physics Nobel Laureates" (PDF).
- ^ Aitchison, Ian (November 19, 1981). "Review of Particle Physics and Introduction to Field Theory by T. D. Lee". New Scientist: 540–541.
- ^ Higgs, Peter (June 30, 1988). "Review of Symmetries, Asymmetries, and the World of Physics by T. D. Lee". New Scientist: 73.
External links
- T.D. Lee's English homepage Archived October 15, 2018, at the Wayback Machine
- T.D. Lee Digital Resource Center
- T.D. Lee's Home Page at Columbia University
- Tsung-Dao Lee on Nobelprize.org including his Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1957 Weak Interactions and Nonconservation of Parity
- Brookhaven National Laboratory: Tsung-Dao Lee Appointed as Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
- Celebration of T.D. Lee's 80th Birthday and the 50th Anniversary of the Discovery of Parity Non-conservation
Related archival collections
- Haskell A. Reich collection of student notes, circa 1945-1954, Niels Bohr Library & Archives (includes lecture notes from Tsung-Dao Lee's courses at Columbia University)