Yuan T. Lee
Chemist, Academic
1936 –
Who is Yuan T. Lee?
Yuan Tseh Lee is a Taiwanese chemist. He was the first Taiwanese Nobel Prize laureate, who, along with the Hungarian-Canadian John C. Polanyi and American Dudley R. Herschbach won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986 "for their contributions to the dynamics of chemical elementary processes". Lee's particular Physical chemistry work was related to the use of advanced chemical kinetics techniques to investigate and manipulate the behavior of chemical reactions for relative large molecules using crossed molecular beams. From January 15, 1994 to October 19, 2006, Lee served as the President of the Academia Sinica of the Taiwan. In 2011, he was elected head of the International Council for Science.
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- Born
- Nov 29, 1936
Hsinchu - Also known as
- Yuan Lee
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Ethnicity
- Taiwanese American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Taiwan
- Profession
- Education
- University of California, Berkeley
- National Taiwan University
- National Tsing Hua University
- Lived in
- Taiwan
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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