Tsung-Dao Lee
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.031099
On this date in 1926, Nobel Laureate Tsung-Dao Lee was born in Shanghai, China. After WW2, Lee immigrated to the US where he studied under Fermi at the University of Chicago and after a brief stint at UC Berkeley, took a position at Columbia University in NYC where he stayed for the rest of his career. Lee initially worked on quantum field theory before shifting focus to particle physics. While studying K meson decays, Lee predicted that the decay could only be explained by the non-conservation of parity. When this prediction was confirmed by C. S. Wu, Lee was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics along with his collaborator C. N. Yang. (Image credit: China Center of Advanced Science and Technology)
Date in History: 24 November 1926
