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Tsung-Dao Lee was a Chinese-American physicist who made groundbreaking contributions to particle physics and won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957 for his work on the weak nuclear force. His research helped scientists understand fundamental forces in nature and shaped the development of modern physics in the latter half of the 20th century.
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- 1926-11-25
- Died
- 2024-08-04
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- Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density
· 1988 · cited 94,860x
- Common method biases in behavioral research: A critical review of the literature and recommended remedies.
· 2003 · cited 64,876x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
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Tsung-Dao Lee (Chinese: 李政道; pinyin: Lǐ Zhèngdào; November 24, 1926 – August 4, 2024) was a Chinese-American physicist known for his work on parity violation, the Lee–Yang theorem, particle physics, relativistic heavy ion (RHIC) physics, nontopological solitons, and soliton stars. He was a university professor emeritus at Columbia University in New York City, where he taught from 1953 until his retirement in 2012.
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