Biography
Tsung Dao Lee, US/Chinese physicist (Shanghai, 24 November 1926-
ACHIEVEMENTS
Proved Lee-Yang theorem (1952)
With C.N. Yang created the concept of G parity (1955) and proposed the existence of W particle, the intermediate boson
Predicted with Yang the violation of parity conservation (1956) independent of studies made by Salam and Landau (1956)
Established with colleagues the field of non-topological solitons (1975)
Developed a new rapidly convergent iterative procedure to solve a class of Schrodinger equation with R. Friedberg and W.Q. Zhao (2008)
HONORS
Nobel Physics Prize (1957)
Asteroid 3443 Leetsungdao
EPONYMY
Kinoshita-Lee-Nauenberg theorem
Lee-Yang property
Lee model of Quantum Field Theory
