TapTechNews August 5th news, according to China News Weekly, it was learned from the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences that the famous Chinese-American physicist and Nobel laureate in physics, Tsung-Dao Lee, passed away at the age of 98.
In addition, The Paper confirmed this news from many friends of Professor Tsung-Dao Lee such as Wang Chuilin. Tsung-Dao Lee passed away in San Francisco on August 4th US time due to ineffective medical treatment at the age of 98.
TapTechNews learned from publicly available information that Tsung-Dao Lee was born in 1926 in Shanghai, China, originally from Suzhou, Jiangsu, and is now a Chinese-American physicist. He studied at Zhejiang University and Southwest Associated University from 1944 to 1946. He obtained a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1950. He became a professor at Columbia University in 1956, a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1960, a Fermi lecturer at Columbia University in 1964, and a University Lecturer at Columbia University in 1984.
In 1994, Tsung-Dao Lee was elected a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; in 2011, he retired from Columbia University; in 2018, he served as the honorary director of the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute.
In 1957, Tsung-Dao Lee, 31 years old, together with fellow Chinese-American physicist Chen-Ning Yang, won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of non-conservation of parity under weak interaction, which was the first time a Chinese person won this award, and this theory was experimentally verified by another Chinese-American physicist, Chien-Shiung Wu.
Tsung-Dao Lee has also received honorary awards such as the Einstein Science Award, the G.Bude Medal, the Italian Supreme Order of the Knight, the Chinese Government Friendship Award, and the Chinese Cultural Figure.