Tsung dao lee nndb biography

Born:25-Nov-1926
Birthplace:Shanghai, China

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Asian
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation:Physicist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Violations of parity law

American physicist Tsung-Dao Lee studied the decay modes of the kaon (certain kinds of unstable mesons, also called K-mesons).

Born in China, he was forcecd to drop out of high school by the circumstances of the Second Sino-Japanese War. He came to America as an undergraduate student and became an American citizen in 1962. At 29 years of age he became the youngest full professor at Columbia University in 1956, and the following year with his colleague Chen Ning Yang Lee conducted the work that marked his name in scientific history.

The decay patterns of the kaon follow two very different patterns, and physicists believed these were two different kinds of kaon, called the tau-meson and theta-meson.

Yang and Lee proposed that despite their divergen