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David Lee

1931 - Today

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David Morris Lee (born January 20, 1931) is an American physicist who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics with Robert C. Richardson and Douglas Osheroff "for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3." Lee is professor emeritus of physics at Cornell University and distinguished professor of physics at Texas A&M University. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. David Lee is the 212th most popular physicist (down from 211th in 2019), the 792nd most popular biography from United States (up from 815th in 2019) and the 41st most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, David Lee ranks 212 out of 851. Before him are Maurice Wilkins, Murray Gell-Mann, Theodor W. Hänsch, Edward Mills Purcell, James Cronin, and Francesco Maria Grimaldi. After him are Pyotr Kapitsa, Yoichiro Nambu, Joseph Rotblat, Steven Weinberg, Wolfgang Paul, and Robert H. Goddard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, David Lee ranks 41. Before him are Anne Bancroft, Ian Holm, James Earl Jones, João Gilberto, Rupert Murdoch, and James Cronin. After him are Larry Hagman, Aldo Rossi, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Richard F. Heck, Guy Debord, and Khieu Samphan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, David Lee ranks 792 out of 20,380. Before him are Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841), William Alfred Fowler (1911), Edgar Cayce (1877), Edward Mills Purcell (1912), James Cronin (1931), and Paul D. Boyer (1918). After him are James Woods (1947), Theodore Dreiser (1871), Benedict Arnold (1741), Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875), Paul Cohen (1934), and Alexander Calder (1898).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, David Lee ranks 41. Before him are Hugh David Politzer (1949), Kip Thorne (1940), Hugh Everett III (1930), Murray Gell-Mann (1929), Edward Mills Purcell (1912), and James Cronin (1931). After him are Steven Weinberg (1933), Robert H. Goddard (1882), Melvin Schwartz (1932), Roy J. Glauber (1925), Ralph Asher Alpher (1921), and Michio Kaku (1947).

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