capital of China. Chinese-American physicist Tsung-Dao Lee died Sunday in San Francisco, California, confirmed by the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and China Center for Advanced Science and Technology.
Tsung-Dao Lee was a Chinese-born American physicist who, with Chen Ning Yang, received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1957 for work in discovering violations of the principle of parity conservation, thus bringing about major refinements in particle physi
Lee proposed the establishment of the Beijing Institute of Modern Physics and the Center for High Energy Physics at Peking University, and served as the directors of the two institutions himself, which have facilitated the cultivation of young talent and international research cooperation in fields lik...