Dr. Lee Yuan-tseh, a co-winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in chemistry, is the first Nobel Prize winner to have received his doctorate as well as his undergraduate and primary education in the Republic of China.
他是一位舉世推崇的科學家，也是我們的鄉親；我們歡喜地迎接他回來，因著他的榮耀，更因為他樸實真率、全無虛應的特質，真正是我們誠摯的鄉親子弟。李遠哲是第一位在國內受完基礎教育、修得碩士學位，而後赴美深造，從事尖端科學研究，並獲得諾貝爾獎的中國人。