Tsung-Dao Lee (T.D. Lee, Chinese: 李政道; pinyin: Lǐ Zhèngdào) (born November 24, 1926) is a Chinese-born American physicist, well known for his work on parity violation, the Lee Model, particle physics, relativistic heavy ion (RHIC) physics, nontopological solitons and soliton stars.
In 1957, Lee, at age 30 or 31, depending on announcement date or ceremony date, with C. N. Yang won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on the violation of parit...
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Tsung-Dao Lee (T.D. Lee, Chinese: 李政道; pinyin: Lǐ Zhèngdào) (born November 24, 1926) is a Chinese-born American physicist, well known for his work on parity violation, the Lee Model, particle physics, relativistic heavy ion (RHIC) physics, nontopological solitons and soliton stars.
In 1957, Lee, at age 30 or 31, depending on announcement date or ceremony date, with C. N. Yang won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on the violation of parity law in weak interaction, which Chien-Shiung Wu experimentally verified.
Lee is the second youngest Nobel laureate, after W. L. Bragg who won the prize at the age of 25, with his father W. H. Bragg in 1915. Lee and Yang were the first Chinese Laureates. Since naturalized as American citizen in 1962, Lee thus is also the youngest American who has ever won a Nobel Prize. In Dec 2007, Lee was, again, invited to the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, half a century after winning his Nobel Prize.
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