Lee,Tsung Dao << suhng dow >> (1926-2024), shared the 1957 Nobel Prize in physics with Chen Ning Yang. They proposed that the “conservation of parity,” a basic principle of nuclear physics, did not hold true in some cases (see Parity). Lee and Yang were the first Chinese-born winners of the Nobel Prize. Lee worked to promote academic exchange between physicists of China and the United States.
Lee was born on Nov. 24, 1926, in Shanghai, China. He attended National Chekiang University (now Zhejiang University) and National Southwest Associated University in China. In 1950, he received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago. He was a professor at Columbia University from 1953 until he retired from teaching in 2012. He died on Aug. 4, 2024.
