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Tsung-dao Lee

Tsung-dao Lee
The latest news and top stories on Tsung-dao Lee. He was a Chinese-American physicist who, with Chen Ning Yang, received the 1957 Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on parity non-conservation in weak interactions. He served as Enrico Fermi Professor of Physics at Columbia University, retiring as University Professor Emeritus. Lee made significant contributions to particle physics, quantum field theory, statistical mechanics and astrophysics, also advancing scientific education and research in China.
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