Lee, Tsung-Dao 1926-
US physicist and Nobel Prize winner

He was born in Shanghai, China, and was educated at Jiangxi (Kiangsi) and at Zhejiang (Chekiang) University. He won a scholarship to Chicago in 1946, became a lecturer at the University of California, and from 1956 was professor at Columbia University, as well as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (1960-63). With Chen Ning Yang he disproved the parity principle, till then considered a fundamental physical law, and they were awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1957. Particle Physics was published in 1981 and in 1986 Lee was appointed to the Italian Order of Merit.