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On August 4, 2024, local time in the United States, Professor Tsung-Dao Lee, a Chinese-American physicist and Nobel Prize winner in Physics, passed away in San Francisco at the age of 98.

New York, Tsung-Dao Lee, photographed on February 18, 2004. IC Photo

Tsung-Dao Lee, a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was born in Shanghai on November 24, 1926, and his ancestral home is Suzhou, Jiangsu.

Mr. Tsung-Dao Lee has been engaged in physics research for a long time and has made a series of milestone works in the fields of particle physics theory, nuclear theory and statistical physics. According to the official website of Peking University, Mr. Tsung-Dao Lee studied at Zhejiang University and Southwest Associated University from 1943 to 1945. In 1946, he entered the Graduate School of the University of Chicago in the United States. After receiving his doctorate in June 1950, he worked in the University of Chicago, the University of California, Columbia University and other places.

Photo of Tsung-Dao Lee studying at the Department of Physics at Zhejiang University in 1943 (reproduced). Image source: IC

National Southwest Associated University Mengzi Branch Memorial Hall, Li Zhengdao's ID photo (reproduced). Image source: IC

Graduate School of the University of Michigan, from left: Tsung-Dao Lee, Chen-Ning Yang, and Zhu Guangya, photographed in 1947. Image courtesy of Visual China

Tsung-Dao Lee, photographed in 1956.

Tsung-Dao Lee giving a speech at CERN in 1968. Photo by Visual China

In 1957, 31-year-old Tsung-Dao Lee won the Nobel Prize in Physics together with Chen-Ning Yang for their discovery of parity violation under weak interactions.Since then, he has been awarded the Albert Einstein Science Award, the highest Order of the Order of the Knight of the Italian Republic, and has been elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and a foreign member of the Italian Academy of Sciences. In 1994, he was elected as a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Stockholm, Sweden, Nobel Prize winners in physics Yang Zhenning and Li Zhengdao, photographed on December 10, 1957. Visual China Photo

The King of Sweden awarded the Nobel Prize to Tsung-Dao Lee

In Stockholm, Sweden, Nobel Prize winners Tsung-Dao Lee (3rd from left) and Chen-Ning Yang (1st from left) attended the Nobel Prize award ceremony on December 10, 1957. Photo courtesy of Visual China

Yang Zhenning (right) and Li Zhengdao (left) in Princeton, USA, photographed in 1961. Visual China Photo

Beijing, the 30th anniversary celebration of the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Chinese theoretical physics research giants gathered. Yang Zhenning (left) and Li Zhengdao (right), taken on June 9, 2008. Visual China Photo

Tsung-Dao Lee has always been concerned about the scientific education of his motherland. Since 1972, he has returned to China many times to give lectures, offer advice and suggestions, and cultivate Chinese scientific and technological talents. From 1979 to 1989, he initiated and participated in the organization and implementation of the Sino-US Joint Training Program for Physics Graduates (CUSPEA); in 1985, he advocated the establishment of the postdoctoral system and the establishment of the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation; in 1998, he initiated the establishment of the Qin Hui-yi and Tsung-Dao Lee Chinese Undergraduate Internship and Training Fund; advocated the establishment of the Sino-US High Energy Physics Cooperation Joint Committee mechanism and the construction of my country's first high-energy accelerator, the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider (BEPC); advocated the establishment of the Beijing Center for Modern Physics, the China Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the Zhejiang Center for Modern Physics, and the Peking University Center for High Energy Physics.

In 1984, he was appointed as an honorary professor of Peking University. In November 2016, the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute was officially established at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. In 2018, Tsung-Dao Lee was appointed as the honorary director of the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute.

CUSPEA Scholars Seminar on Physics in the Twenty-First Century and the Development of China.

From July 31 to August 4, 2000, the 3rd "Global Chinese Physics Conference" was held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where world-class Chinese physicists gathered. Pictured is Tsung-Dao Lee. Image courtesy of Visual China

On the afternoon of October 19, 2005, Nobel Prize winner and famous Chinese-American physicist Professor Tsung-Dao Lee came to Fudan University to give a speech.

On September 5, 2006, the "2006 Nobel Prize Winners Beijing Forum" opened at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Nobel Prize winner Tsung-Dao Lee gave a speech on "Basic Scientific Research and How to Cultivate Talents." Visual China Photo

On the evening of November 12, 2006, Soochow University, Peking University, Fudan University, Lanzhou University and National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan jointly held a grand 80th birthday banquet for Chinese-American scientist and Nobel Prize winner Professor Tsung-Dao Lee at the Soochow Hotel in Suzhou.
The picture shows Professor Tsung-Dao Lee at a birthday dinner. Visual China Photo

Rest in peace, sir!