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Tsung-Dao (T.D.) Lee
Full Name of the recipient | Tsung-Dao (T.D.) Lee |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Physics |
Year of Award | 1957 |
Share in Award | 50.0% |
Award Shared with | Chen Ning Yang (50.0%) |
Motivation for the Award | for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles |
Affiliation at the Time of Award | Columbia University, New York, NY, USA |
Place of Birth | Shanghai, China CHN |
Date of Birth | 24 November 1926 |
Age at the time of Award | 30 years |