What is Tsung-Dao Lee?
[[File:TD Lee.jpg|right|200px]] {{nobelprize|Physics}}'''Tsung-Dao Lee''' ({{zh |c = 李政道 |p = Lǐ Zhèngdào }}; November 24, 1926 &ndash; August 4, 2024) was a Chinese-American [[physicist]]. He was born in [[Shanghai]]. He is known for his work on [[Parity (physics)#Parity violation|parity violation]], the Lee Model, [[particle physics]], relativistic heavy ion (RHIC) physics, nontopological solitons and soliton stars. He was a [[University Professor]] [[Emeritus]] at [[Columbia University]], where he taught from 1953 until his retirement in 2012.<ref>[http://news.columbia.edu/home/2526 Home | Columbia News<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120430093523/http://news.columbia.edu/home/2526 |date=April 30, 2012 }}</ref> In 1957, Lee, at the age of 30, won the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] with [[Chen Ning Yang]]<ref>{{Cite web |url = https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1957/ |title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1957 |publisher = The Nobel Foundation |access-date = November 1, 2014 }}</ref> for their work on the violation of the [[Parity (physics)#Parity violation|parity]] law in weak interactions. Lee died in [[San Francisco]], [[California]] on August 4, 2024, at the age of 97.<ref>{{cite news |title=Nobel laureate Tsung-Dao Lee passes away, aged 98, media reports |url=https://news.cgtn.com/news/2024-08-05/news-1vOScJzZCA8/p.html |access-date=5 August 2024 |publisher=CGTN |date=5 August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=物理学家李政道逝世，享年98岁 |url=https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_28311290 |access-date=5 August 2024 |publisher=The Paper |date=5 August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/nobel-prize-winning-physicist-tsung-dao-lee-dies-112574913|title=Nobel Prize-winning physicist Tsung-Dao Lee dies at age 97|publisher=[[ABC News]]|date=August 4, 2024}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Lee, Tsung-Dao}} [[Category:1926 births]] [[Category:2024 deaths]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of the Un