Tsung-Dao Lee

Tsung-Dao Lee (; November 24, 1926 – August 4, 2024) was a Chinese-American physicist. He was born in Shanghai. He is known for his work on 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.Home | Columbia News 

In 1957, Lee, at the age of 30, won the Nobel Prize in Physics with Chen Ning Yang for their work on the violation of the parity law in weak interactions.

Lee died in San Francisco, California on August 4, 2024, at the age of 97.

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