Physicist Tsung-Dao Lee, One of China’s First Nobel Laureates, Dies at 97
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Tsung-Dao Lee, renowned Chinese-American physicist and one of China’s first Nobel Prize laureates, has died at the age of 97, according to a Monday obituary from Tsung-Dao Lee Institute (TDLI) and media reports.
Lee passed away at his home in San Francisco at 2:33 Sunday morning local time, the TDLI said in a statement released jointly with China Center of Advanced Science and Technology. Multiple state-run Chinese media outlets, including China Newsweek, which cited sources from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of High Energy Physics, have published reports on Lee’s passing.
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- Tsung-Dao Lee, a renowned Chinese-American physicist and Nobel laureate, passed away at 97 in San Francisco.
- Lee, born in Shanghai in 1926, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957 with Chen Ning Yang for work on parity laws in elementary particles.
- He received numerous awards and accolades, including the Albert Einstein Award and Galileo Galilei Medal, and contributed significantly to physics and talent cultivation in China.
- November 1926：
- Tsung-Dao Lee was born in Shanghai.
- 1957：
- Tsung-Dao Lee won the Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with Chen Ning Yang.
- August 4, 2024, at 2:33 AM local time：
- Tsung-Dao Lee passed away at his home in San Francisco.
- August 5, 2024：
- Tsung-Dao Lee’s death was reported by multiple state-run Chinese media outlets.
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