YUAN T. LEE

(Yuan Tseh Lee)


Yuan T. Lee
Yuan T. Lee
  • Born: November 19, 1936
  • Died: November 19, 1936
  • Nationality: Chinese, American
  • Profession: Scientist

Yuan Tseh Lee is a Taiwanese chemist and a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. 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".