On August 5, according to CCTV News, Mr. Tsung-Dao Lee, a famous physicist and Nobel laureate in physics, passed away at the age of 97.
In 1986, Lee co-founded the China Center for Advanced Science and Technology in Beijing and served as its lifelong director. In 1991, the Zhejiang Center for Modern Physics was established, and Tsung-Dao Lee served as the director of the center. Since 1993, Lee has been appointed as an honorary professor at Jinan University, Fudan University, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Nanjing University, and Northwest University. In 1994, he was elected as a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. On November 28, 2016, the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute was officially established at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. On April 7, 2018, Lee was appointed as the Honorary Director of the Lee Institute.
The Lee Tsung-do Institute released an obituary
Wang Yifang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and director of the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who has had many contacts with Tsung-Dao Lee, told Red Star News that Tsung-Dao Lee is a theoretical physicist, but he does things very much like an experimental physicist, very thoughtful and practical, and does specific things himself. Wang Yifang recalled that Lee Tsung-dao judged whether a project was supported by a position rather than academic recognition.
Wang Yifang, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, recalled:
Lee has held workshops in China
Thousands of young scholars have benefited
According to the obituary released by the Lee Zhengdao Institute of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Li Zhengdao died at 2:33 am local time on August 4, 2024, at his home in San Francisco, United States, at the age of 97. "With a fervent love for the motherland and a strong desire to serve the country, Mr. Tsung-Dao Lee used his outstanding vision as an outstanding scientist to promote the development of China's high-energy physics around the Beijing Positron Collider."
In 2021, Tsung-Dao Lee sent a message to China's high-energy physics industry, "I sincerely wish that the motherland's high-energy physics industry will flourish and develop healthily, and that Chinese scientists will make more world-class important original achievements!" ”
Tsung-Dao Lee's message to China's high-energy physics industry. According to the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
On August 5, Wang Yifang, director of the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told Red Star News that Li Tsungdao has worked hard and done his best to promote the development of China's high-energy physics and the construction of the mainland's first large-scale scientific device, the Beijing Positron Collider, accompanied and witnessed the difficult but successful pace of the mainland's high-energy physics, and made irreplaceable contributions to the development of China's high-energy physics.
In Wang Yifang's view, another major contribution of Tsung-Dao Lee to the development of Chinese science is in the cultivation of talents. Wang Yifang introduced that Lee Tsung-dao once held a workshop in China to introduce the latest development of quantum field theory and quantum statistics at that time, and thousands of people listened to the lecture, and many young students benefited. On this basis, he promoted young Chinese scholars to study in United States for about 10 years, benefiting about 1,000 people, many of whom have become important forces in the cause of science and education.
Wang Yifang recalled that Lee Tsung-dao was a theoretical physicist, but he did things very much like an experimental physicist, very thoughtful and practical, and did many specific things himself, not just to express his opinions. Whether it is promoting China's postdoctoral system or the Beijing Positron Collider, he has done a lot of things himself. "Without his push, these things would not have worked."
Wang Yifang once said in an interview that Lee Tsung-dao is a person with high emotional intelligence, as if he has the ability to perceive people's hearts.
Wang Yifang told the Red Star News reporter that Lee Tsung-dao is very good at communicating with others, can understand other people's problems and difficulties, and then convinces others through his own language arts, academic ability and insight. Lee Tsung-dao was able to accurately understand the various problems and difficulties they had encountered in terms of technology, talents, and other aspects, and found the right person to solve them.
One of the things that Wang Yifang impressed Li Zhengdao the most was that when he introduced the Daya Bay neutrino experiment to him, Li Zhengdao did not express his position after listening to it, but did a lot of research and academic communication after returning to United States. After Lee Tsung-dao decided that it was a meaningful and important experiment, various communications were made between China and the United States to promote the establishment and cooperation of this experiment.
More than 60 years of academic career:
Professor Emeritus, Multi-Teacher University
He helped design the postdoctoral program
In the obituary released by the Lee Institute, it is mentioned that "as one of the physics masters who created the history of Chinese Nobel Prize winners, Mr. Tsung-Dao Lee has been rigorous in his academic career for more than 60 years, seeking breakthroughs in quantum field theory, elementary particle theory, nuclear physics, statistical mechanics, fluid mechanics, astrophysics and many other fields, constantly climbing the peak of science, seeking truth and truth, and making lasting and clear contributions to the development of physics." As a wise messenger advocating the integration of science and art, Mr. Tsung-Dao Lee has collaborated with many top artists in China to integrate scientific ideas into artistic creation, leaving behind many masterpieces with rich connotations and timeless meanings. ”
Born on November 24, 1926 in Shanghai, China, and originally from Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, Tsung-Dao Lee has loved reading since childhood, not only in Chinese classics, but also in British and American literature. Popular science books such as The Expanding Universe sparked his interest in physics.
In 1943, Lee Tsung-dao was admitted to Zhejiang University through the National University Unified Entrance Examination, and from 1943 to 1945, Lee Tsung-dao studied physics at Zhejiang University and Southwest Associated University respectively. Due to social unrest and war turmoil, Lee Tsung-dao never obtained a formal diploma in elementary, middle, high school, or university.
In 1946, Lee Tsung-dao was awarded a scholarship and left Shanghai by ship to study in the United States. In June 1950, Lee received a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Chicago and was hailed as a "doctor prodigy".
In April 1957, Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen-Ning Yang were awarded the Albert Einstein Prize in Science for their theory of non-conservation of cosmic symmetry in weak interactions, and in October of the same year, Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen-Ning Yang were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
In September 1972, Lee Tsung-dao and his wife Qin Huiqian visited China for the first time. In October of the same year, Zhou Enlai met with Lee Tsung-dao and his wife for the first time in Beijing. In 1979, Tsung-Dao Lee was invited to give a lecture at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, during which he found that most of the students had excellent grades and outstanding abilities, and Tsung-Dao Lee hoped to create opportunities for more young people to create the "Sino-US Joint Graduate Program in Physics" (CUSPEA) to select outstanding students to study in the United States.
In 1985, at the suggestion of Tsung-Dao Lee, China established a postdoctoral system and a natural science foundation, and he also helped design the specific implementation plan of the postdoctoral system and the natural science foundation.
In 1986, Lee co-founded the China Advanced Science and Technology Center in Beijing and served as its lifelong director. In 1991, the Zhejiang Center for Modern Physics was established, and Tsung-Dao Lee served as the director of the center.
Since 1993, Lee has been appointed as an honorary professor at Jinan University, Fudan University, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Nanjing University, and Northwest University. In 1994, he was elected as a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In the same year, he was hired as an honorary professor at the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts, and organized a seminar on "Art and Science" with a group of famous artists. On November 28, 2016, the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute was officially established at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. On April 7, 2018, Lee was appointed as the Honorary Director of the Lee Institute.
Red Star News reporter Liu Yaya intern Huang Wenhong
Edited by Pan Li and edited by Guan Li
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