Tsung-Dao Lee (1926-2024)

Awarded the Prize “for his penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles.”

American physicist. Tsung-Dao Lee was born on November 25, 1926 in Shanghai, China. He passed away on August 4, 2024, in San Francisco, USA. He graduated from the National Chekiang University in 1944, then he attended the National Southwest University. In 1946, he went to the University of Chicago, where he gained his Ph.D. degree in 1950. From 1950 to 1951 he was a research associate lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley, then accepted a fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton. He was in 1953 appointed Assistant Professorship of Physics at Columbia University, Professorship in 1956. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences.