TSUNG DAO LEE

Tsung-Dao Lee (born November 24, 1926) is a Chinese-American physicist, known for his work
on parity violation, the Lee Model, particle physics, relativistic heavy ion (RHIC) physics,
nontopological solitons and soliton stars. He was a University Professor Emeritus at Columbia
University, where he taught from 1953 until his retirement in 2012.

In 1957, Lee, at the age of 30, won the Nobel Prize in Physics with Chen Ning Yang[2] for their
work on the violation of the parity law in weak interactions, which Chien-Shiung Wu
experimentally verified in 1956, with her so-called Wu experiment.
Lee remains the youngest Nobel laureate in the science fields after World War II. He is the third-
youngest Nobel laureate in sciences in history after William L. Bragg (who won the prize at 25
with his father William H. Bragg in 1915) and Werner Heisenberg (who won in 1932 also at 30).
Lee and Yang were the first Chinese laureates. Since he became a naturalized American citizen
in 1962, Lee is also the youngest American ever to have won a Nobel Prize.

Question:

How could he win the Nobel Prize?

Answer:

He with Chen Ning Yang, received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1957 for work in
discovering violations of the principle of parity conservation (the quality of space reflection
symmetry of subatomic particle interactions), thus bringing about major refinements in
particle physics theory.