The Nobel Prize in Physics 1957
Awarded on: 1957-10-31
"for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles"
Affiliations:
- Columbia University – New York, NY, USA
Tsung-Dao (T.D.) Lee
Born: 1926-11-24 in Shanghai, China
Gender: male
Field: Chinese-American physicist (1926–2024)
Biography
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.