Announcements

2024-08-23
Livestream Announcement: Memorial Service for Professor Tsung-Dao Lee
2024-08-11
Call for Works in Memory of Prof. Tsung-Dao Lee
2024-08-11
Memorial Service for Professor Tsung-Dao Lee to Be Held on August 25
2024-08-06
Professor Tsung-Dao Lee, Nobel Laureate, Passed Away at 97

Biography

Tsung-Dao Lee is a Chinese-born American theoretical physicist. He is well-known for his ground-breaking work in such fields as quantum field theory, particle theory, nuclear physics, statistical mechanics, fluid mechanics, and astrophysics. In 1957, Lee received the Nobel Prize for Physics with Chen-Ning Yang, for their work related to the discovery of violation of the parity law in weak interactions, which changed the understanding of symmetry. Lee is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Italy's Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze (National Academy of Sciences) and a Foreign Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.