David Lee Quotes


My first project was to build an ionization gauge control circuit for Professor Edgar Everhart's Cockcroft-Walton accelerator. In those days, vacuum tubes were the active components in electronic circuits. I can still recall the warm orange glow of the vacuum tube filaments and the cool blue glow of the thyratron tubes.


Citations

Lee, David M. "David M. Lee - Biographical." Les Prix Nobel 1996, edited by Tore Frängsmyr, Nobel Foundation, 1997.

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David Lee
David Lee
  • Born: January 20, 1931
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Physicist

David Morris Lee is an American physicist who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics with Robert C. Richardson and Douglas Osheroff "for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3." Lee is professor emeritus of physics at Cornell University and distinguished professor of physics at Texas A&M University.