Nobel laureate Tsung-Dao Lee dies

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) — Chinese-American physicist Tsung-Dao Lee died Sunday in San Francisco, California, confirmed by the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and China Center for Advanced Science and Technology.
The 97-year-old Nobel laureate died at his home in San Francisco at 2:33 a.m. local time (0933 GMT) Sunday morning, according to a joint obituary released on Monday by the two organizations.
Lee was born in Shanghai, China, on Nov. 24, 1926. He developed high interest in physics at an early age. In 1957, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics with Chen-Ning Yang for advancing parity nonconservation in weak interactions, overturning what had been considered a fundamental law of nature that particles are always symmetrical.
Lee served as a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, an academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, the lifelong director of the China Center of Advanced Science and Technology, an honorary professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and an honorary director of the university’s Tsung-Dao Lee Institute. ■