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Yuan T. Lee
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Taiwanese chemist
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Yuan T. Lee is a male chemist and university teacher who has worked at Harvard University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Chicago, and the California Institute of Technology. He was born in 1936 and holds citizenship in Taiwan, the United States, and the Empire of Japan. Lee is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Faraday Lectureship Prize, the National Medal of Science, and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Lee was educated at National Taiwan University, the University of California, Berkeley, and National Hsinchu Senior High School. His father is Lee Tse-fan. He speaks Southern Min, Chinese, and English.
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Key facts
- President
- Lai Ching-te
- Preceded by
- Wu Ta-You
- Succeeded by
- Chi-Huey Wong
- Born
- ( 1936-11-19 ) 19 November 1936 (age 89) , Shinchiku City , Shinchiku Prefecture , Taiwan , Empire of Japan
- Citizenship
- Empire of Japan (1936–1945) , Republic of China (1945–present) , United States (1974–1994)
- Party
- Independent
- Education
- National Taiwan University ( BS ), National Tsing Hua University ( MS ), University of California, Berkeley ( PhD )
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1986), National Medal of Science (1986), Peter Debye Award (1986) , Faraday Lectureship Prize (1992), Othmer Gold Medal (2008)
- Fields
- Physical chemistry
- Institutions
- University of California, Berkeley , University of Chicago , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , Academia Sinica (Taiwan)
- Thesis
- Photoionization of alkali-metal vapors (1965)
- Doctoral advisor
- Bruce H. Mahan
- Doctoral students
- Laurie Butler , Daniel M. Neumark
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1986
“for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Li
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Empire of Japan
- Father
- Lee Tse-fan
- Educated at
- National Hsinchu Senior High School
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- chemistry
- Image
- Yuan Tseh Lee HD2008 Portrait professional.jpg
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- Yuan T. Lee
- date of birth
- 1936-11-19
- member of
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- Erdős number
- 10
- interested in
- chemistry
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Encyclopedic overview
Yuan Tseh Lee (Chinese: 李遠哲; pinyin: Lǐ Yuǎnzhé; Wade–Giles: Li³ Yüan³-che²; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lí Oán-tiat; born 19 November 1936) is a Taiwanese physical chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986 for his contributions to the development of reaction dynamics.
Lee is a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and honorary director of the Nagoya University Institute for Advanced Study along with Ryoji Noyori. He was awarded the Nobel with John C. Polanyi and Dudley R. Herschbach for "contributions to the dynamics of chemical elementary processes". He was the first Taiwanese person be awarded the Nobel Prize. His research in physical chemistry concerned the use of advanced chemical kinetics techniques to investigate and manipulate the behavior of chemical reactions using crossed molecular beams. From 1994 to 2006, Lee served as the President of the Academia Sinica. In 2011, he was elected head of the International Council for Science.
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