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On August 25, the "Memorial Service for Mr. Tsung-Dao Lee" was held. This article was taken by Zou Jiawen of The Paper

The crowd lined up to enter the memorial hall, and then, holding white chrysanthemums, slowly walked to the portrait of Mr. Tsung-Dao Lee, bowed three times, laid flowers, and then expressed their condolences to Mr. Tsung-Dao Lee's family members in turn, including Mr. Lee's eldest son, Professor Lee Chung-Ching, and eldest grandson, Professor Lee Sun-Shih.

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 the morning of August 25 (Sunday), a memorial service for Mr. Tsung-Dao Lee was held in Shanghai.

The memorial service was jointly organized by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Chinese Physical Society, American Physical Society, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, Peking University, Zhejiang University, and the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The main venue was set up at the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and branch venues were set up at Peking University, Zhejiang University, the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Tsung-Dao Lee Library of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

On the morning of August 25, the special website in memory of Mr. Tsung-Dao Lee (https://tdli.sjtu.edu.cn/st/tdlee/) will also broadcast live the memorial service for Mr. Tsung-Dao Lee to the public.

On August 11, the "Memorial Service for Mr. Tsung-Dao Lee" was held at the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. At that time, Professor Liang Chen, Vice Dean of the School of History of Nanjing University, read a speech on behalf of Professor Li Zhongqing as the representative of Mr. Tsung-Dao Lee's family. The speech was entitled "I will always be a part of you, and you will always be a part of me."

"In the last few days of his life, Dad would say, 'I will always be a part of you, and you will always be a part of me.' Although only my family was around him at that time, I think my father's words were not only for me, but also for his teachers, colleagues, friends, eternal science and the motherland over the years," Li Zhongqing wrote in his speech.

Mr. Tsung-Dao Lee was born on November 24, 1926 in Shanghai, China. His ancestral home is Suzhou, Jiangsu. From 1943 to 1945, he studied at Zhejiang University and Southwest Associated University. In 1946, he entered the Graduate School of the University of Chicago and received his doctorate in June 1950. From 1950 to 1953, he conducted research at the University of Chicago, the University of California, Berkeley, and Princeton Institute. In 1956, Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen-Ning Yang jointly proposed the proposition that parity is not conserved in weak interactions. The following year, after experimental verification, they jointly won the Nobel Prize in Physics and the Einstein Science Award. His research work has had a profound impact on the development of particle physics and quantum field theory.

In promoting the development of Chinese talents, Mr. Tsung-Dao Lee made great contributions. Concerned about the lack of education and scientific talents in China, he suggested the establishment of the "Junior Class", the "China-U.S. Joint Training Program for Physics Graduates" (CUSPEA), the postdoctoral system, the National Natural Science Foundation, etc. These programs and mechanisms have cultivated countless talents in science, technology, and business.