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The first Chinese Nobel Prize winner, Tsung-Dao Lee, passed away on August 4 in San Francisco, USA at the age of 98.

Tsung-Dao Lee was born on November 24, 1926. He is a Chinese-American physicist known for his work on parity non-conservation, Lee-Yang theorem, particle physics, relativistic heavy ion (RHIC) physics, non-topological solitons and soliton stars. Lee was a professor emeritus at Columbia University, where he taught from 1953 until his retirement in 2012.

Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen-Ning Yang were both among the first Chinese Nobel Prize winners. In 1957, 31-year-old Tsung-Dao Lee and 35-year-old Chen-Ning Yang jointly won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their research on the law of parity nonconservation (in weak interactions) and the many discoveries on elementary particles that resulted from it. The theory was confirmed by experiments by another Chinese physicist, Chien-Shiung Wu.

Photo from the Nobel Foundation archives

Reference link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsung-Dao_Lee