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Tsung-Dao Lee , 1926-, American physicist, b. China, Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago, 1950. He was a member (1951-53) of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; and professor of theoretical physics there (1960-63). He also served as professor at Columbia (1953-60, 1963-). Lee is known for his studies in statistical mechanics, elementary particles, and astrophysics. He shared with Chen-ning Yang the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics for researches refuting the law of conservation of parity .

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Lee, Tsung-Dao (1926– ) US physicist, b. China. He and his colleague, Chen Ning Yang, showed that among the weak interactions of subatomic particles, the law of conservation of parity (that nature, in effect, makes no distinction between right- and left-handedness) does not always hold. Lee and Yang received the 1957 Nobel Prize in physics.
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