Tsung-Dao Lee

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Tsung-Dao Lee (

Lee has four brothers and one sister. Educator Robert C. T. Lee was one of T. D.'s brothers.^[6] Lee's mother Chang and brother Robert C. T. moved to Taiwan in the 1950s.^{[citation needed]}

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.^[5]

Professor Wu nominated Lee for a Chinese government fellowship for graduate study in the United States. In 1946, Lee went to the

In the early 1960s, Lee and collaborators initiated the important field of high-energy

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.^{[citation needed]} Leading up to 2005,^[9] Lee and Richard M. Friedberg 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 also did work on the neutrino mapping matrix.^[10]

Lee was 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.^[11]

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Soon after the re-establishment of China-American

Lee and Jeannette Hui-Chun Chin married in 1950 and had two sons: James Lee (Chinese: 李中清; pinyin: Lǐ Zhōngqīng) and Stephen Lee (Chinese: 李中汉; pinyin: Lǐ Zhōnghàn). His wife died in 1996.^[5]

Tsung-Dao Lee died in San Francisco on August 4, 2024, at the age of 97.^[5][12][13]

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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)
• Marcel Grossmann Awards (2015), "for his work on white dwarfs motivating Enrico Fermi’s return to astrophysics and guiding the basic understanding of neutron star matter and fields"^[14]

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

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.^[15]
• 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.^[16]
• 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
  .

• Zhejiang Institute of Modern Physics
• Chinese people in New York City

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tsung-Dao Lee.

• 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)