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Tsung-Dao Lee

1926 - 2024

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Tsung-Dao Lee (Chinese: 李政道; pinyin: Lǐ Zhèngdào; November 24, 1926 – August 4, 2024) was a Chinese-American physicist, known for his work on parity violation, the Lee–Yang theorem, particle physics, relativistic heavy ion (RHIC) physics, nontopological solitons, and soliton stars. He was a university professor emeritus at Columbia University in New York City, where he taught from 1953 until his retirement in 2012. In 1957, at the age of 30, Lee won the Nobel Prize in Physics with Chen Ning Yang for their work on the violation of the parity law in weak interactions, which Chien-Shiung Wu experimentally proved from 1956 to 1957, with her well known Wu experiment. Lee remains the youngest Nobel laureate in the science fields after World War II. He is the third-youngest Nobel laureate in sciences in history after William L. Bragg (who won the prize at 25 with his father William H. Bragg in 1915) and Werner Heisenberg (who won in 1932 also at 30). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tsung-Dao Lee is the 235th most popular physicist (down from 173rd in 2019), the 171st most popular biography from China (down from 164th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Chinese Physicist.

Tsung-Dao Lee is most famous for his work in the development of the theory of parity violation.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Tsung-Dao Lee ranks 235 out of 851. Before him are Klaus Fuchs, Edme Mariotte, Robert Hofstadter, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Jacques Charles, and Victor Weisskopf. After him are Leo Esaki, Vitaly Ginzburg, Nikolay Basov, Arthur Ashkin, Willard Boyle, and John Cockcroft.

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Among people born in 1926, Tsung-Dao Lee ranks 44. Before him are Allen Ginsberg, John Coltrane, Ingeborg Bachmann, David Attenborough, Jack Brabham, and Necmettin Erbakan. After him are Ed McBain, Mel Brooks, Louise Hay, Aaron Klug, Alcides Ghiggia, and Neal Cassady. Among people deceased in 2024, Tsung-Dao Lee ranks 43. Before him are Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, Quincy Jones, Marisa Paredes, Bengt I. Samuelsson, Colin Renfrew, and Alexei Navalny. After him are Melanie, Frank Farian, Roberto Cavalli, Sebastián Piñera, César Luis Menotti, and Rik Van Looy.

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In China

Among people born in China, Tsung-Dao Lee ranks 171 out of 1,610. Before him are Empress Wanrong (1906), Zhang Yimou (1950), Kaidu (1230), Bao Zheng (999), Emperor Jing of Han (-188), and Je Tsongkhapa (1357). After him are Peng Dehuai (1898), Ngawang Namgyal (1594), Cao Rui (205), Sun Bin (-401), Liu Shan (207), and Taichang Emperor (1582).

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Among PHYSICISTS In China

Among physicists born in China, Tsung-Dao Lee ranks 2. Before him are Walter Houser Brattain (1902). After him are Chien-Shiung Wu (1912), Yang Chen-Ning (1922), Daniel C. Tsui (1939), Qian Xuesen (1911), and He Jiankui (1984).

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