Tsung Dao Lee Biography

Tsung Dao Lee biography

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NAME: Tsung Dao Lee
OCCUPATION: Physicist
BIRTH DATE: November 24, 1926 (Age: 86)
EDUCATION: University of Chicago
PLACE OF BIRTH: Shanghai, China
ZODIAC SIGN: Sagittarius

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Tsang Dao Lee is a Chinese-born American physicist who received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1957.

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Tsang Dao Lee studied at the University of Chicago with Enrico Fermi before going on to several professorships. With Chen Ning Yang, he received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1957 for work in finding violations of the principle of parity conservation (the quality of space reflection symmetry of subatomic particle interactions), thus bringing about major refinements in particle physics theory.

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