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  Tsung-Dao Lee - Biography
Lee was then fast becoming a widely known scientist, especially for his work in statistical mechanics and in nuclear and subnuclear physics, having solved some problems of long standing and of great complexity.
Among the honours bestowed on Professor Lee are: the Albert Einstein Commemorative Award in Science of Yeshiva University, New York (1957) and the Science Award of the Newspaper Guild of New York.
Lee married (Jeannette) Hui Chung Chin a former university student, in 1950.
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  Tsung-Dao Lee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1957, at age 31, Lee and Chen Ning Yang jointly received the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on the violation of parity law, which Chien-Shiung Wu experimentally verified.
Lee went to the University of Chicago in 1946 and completed his PhD with Enrico Fermi.
Chin and Lee were married in 1950 and have two sons: James and Stephen.
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 Tsung-Dao Lee
Lee and Yang were the first Chinese Nobel winners, both were in their early 30s at the time.
Lee and Yang went to the University of Chicago in 1946.
Lee founded the Chin Hui Chung-Lee Tsung-Dao Chinese Collegian Foundation (秦惠莙—李政道中国大学生见习基金) in Beijing in memory of his wife in 1999, who died 3 years earlier.
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 lee - definition by dict.die.net
Lee tide, a tide running in the same direction that the wind blows.
On the lee beam, directly to the leeward; in a line at right angles to the length of the vessel and to the leeward.
Under the lee of, on that side which is sheltered from the wind; as, to be under the lee of a ship.
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 Alan Lee's Chinese Kung-Fu Wu-Su Association
Lee's early instructors, was a famous general who won the first modern military victory against the Japanese at the Battle of Táiérzhuāng.
Grandmaster Lee was the chairman of the Second International Convention of Martial Arts held at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City.
Lee began his own businesses in the areas of engineering consultation, general consulting, import and export and real estate.
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 Tsung-Dao Lee   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Lee immigrated to the United States in 1946, and, although he had no undergraduate degree, he entered the graduate school in physics at the University of Chicago, where he began his collaboration with Yang.
In 1956 Lee and Yang concluded that the theta-meson and tau-meson, previously thought to be different because they decay by modes of differing parity, are in fact the same particle (now called the K-meson).
In 1960 Lee was appointed professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study, and three years later he returned to Columbia to assume the first Enrico Fermi professorship in physics.
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 Li (surname) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Li or Lee is a common transliteration of several Chinese family names.
The Korean family name Lee and the Vietnamese family name Lý are related to the Chinese name.
Lee Teng-hui, President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) (1988-2000)
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 Tsung-Dao Lee, Director Emeritus of RIKEN-BNL Research Center at   Brookhaven Lab, Appointed as Member of the ...
Lee has devoted his long career to the study of the theoretical aspects of particle and nuclear physics.
In 1957, Lee and Chen Ning Yang won the Nobel Prize in physics for disproving a tenet of physics known as the conservation of parity.
In addition, Lee is Director of the China Center of Advanced Science and Technology in Beijing; the Beijing Institute of Modern Physics; and the Zhejiang Institute of Modern Physics, all in China.
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 CNN.com - Taiwan names Tsung as new economic boss - January 24, 2002
Tsung and Lee will be under intense pressure to pull Taiwan's economy out of its first recession in decades.
Tsung, the daughter of an air force pilot, was appointed a year ago to head China Airlines, which had a poor safety record.
Tsung, 53, has an MBA from the University of Missouri and lived in the U.S. for nearly three decades, where she served as finance director for the small southern California city of Poway, near San Diego.
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 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Lee, Tsung-Dao   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Lee is known for his studies in statistical mechanics, elementary particles, and astrophysics.
He shared with Chen-ning Yang the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics for researches refuting the law of conservation of parity.
Tsung Dao Lee Acts as Top Science Advisor for NE China Province.
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 Tsung Dao Lee
Tsung Dao Lee was born in Shanghai, China, in 1926.
After appointments at the University of California and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Lee went to Columbia University where he eventually became the Enrico Fermi Professor of Physics.
Professor Lee shared the Nobel Prize for Physics with Chen Ning Yang in 1957 and has received numerous other honors and awards.
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 The 12 Most Brilliant Asian Americans of All Time 1/2 | Asian American Personalities | GOLDSEA
Lee was born November 24, 1926 in Shanghai, China.
Yuan T. Lee won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, along with two others, for devising techniques for cross-directing molecular beams for more precise study of processes involved in a wide variety of chemical reactions, including those among relatively large molecules.
Lee was born in November of 1936 in Hsinchu, Taiwan.
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