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Nobel Prize winner in Physics and Chinese-American physicist Tsung-Dao Lee died at his home in San Francisco, USA on August 4, 2024, local time, at the age of 97.

On August 5, Columbia University President Minush Shafik published an obituary on the university's official website: Columbia University mourns the passing of Nobel Prize winner and world-renowned physicist Professor Tsung-Dao Lee. His groundbreaking contributions in related fields have had a profound impact on both theoretical and experimental physics.

According to the obituary, in 1953, Tsung-Dao Lee was hired as an assistant professor at Columbia University, joining one of the greatest physics departments at the time. In 1956, he was appointed full professor. A year later, at the age of 31, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for breaking the inherent cognition and discovering that the parity of subatomic particles is not conserved. He worked at Columbia University for nearly 60 years and retired in 2011 at the age of 84.

Lee's research covered a wide range of fields, including quantum field theory, particle theory, nuclear physics, statistical mechanics, fluid mechanics, and astrophysics. He was a beloved teacher and colleague, and generations of Columbia students will always be grateful to him.