Tsung-Dao Lee
Tsung-Dao Lee (李政道 Pinyin: ) (born November 24, 1926) was a the first Chinese-American physicist who rehis work on the parity law, with Chen Ning Yang, received the Nobel Prize. Lee and Yang were the first Chinese Nobel winners, both were in their early 30s at the time.
Born in Shanghai, he studied at a middle school in Jiangsi. The first part of his university education began in the University of Zhejiang, but was interrupted by the war, so continued in the National Southwest Associated University (西南聯合大學) in Kunming the next year, where he met Chen Ning Yang. Lee and Yang went to the University of Chicago in 1946. In [1953]], he became an assistant professor in Columbia University, and the university's youngest professor three years later at the age of 30.
After the establishment of PRC-American diplomacy, Lee and his wife, Tai (秦惠莙), was able to go to China, where Lee hosted several lectures and seminars, and supported the China-U.S. Physics Examination and Application.
Chien-Shiung Wu was also instrumental in establishing the parity law, with Lee and Yang, but she was also not awarded.