Yuan T. Lee
| Yuan Tseh Lee 李遠哲 |
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Lee in lab, taken October 21, 1986
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| Born |
November 19, 1936 Shinchiku City, Shinchiku Prefecture, Taiwan, Empire of Japan |
| Residence | Taiwan, Republic of China |
| Nationality |
Republic of China (1945–) United States (1974–1994) Japan (1936–1945) |
| Fields | Chemistry |
| Institutions |
University of California, Berkeley University of Chicago Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Academia Sinica (Taiwan) |
| Alma mater |
National Taiwan University (B.Sc.) National Tsing Hua University (M.S.) University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D) |
| Doctoral advisor | Bruce H. Mahan |
| Notable awards |
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1986) National Medal of Science (1986) Peter Debye Award (1986) Othmer Gold Medal (2008) |
 “Yuan T Lee - Science Video Interview”, Vega Science Trust (Archive) |
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, Yuan T. Lee (2010), Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings |
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“Yuan Lee, Taiwan”, Global Ideas |
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“Sustainability of the human society (part1)“, Professor Lee Yuan Tseh, Akademi Sains Malaysia ASM |
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“Sustainability of the human society (part2)“, Professor Lee Yuan Tseh, ASM |
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“Sustainability of the human society (part3)“, Professor Lee Yuan Tseh, ASM |
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“Sustainability of the human society (part4)“, Professor Lee Yuan Tseh, ASM |
Yuan Tseh Lee (Chinese: 李遠哲; pinyin: Lǐ Yuǎnzhé; Wade–Giles: Li³ Yüan³-che²; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lí Oán-tiat; born November 19, 1936) 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 using crossed molecular beams. From January 15, 1994 to October 19, 2006, Lee served as the President of the Academia Sinica of Taiwan. In 2011, he was elected head of the International Council for Science.
Lee was born in Shinchiku City (modern-day Hsinchu) in northern Taiwan, which was then under Japanese rule, to Lee Tze-fan, an accomplished Shinchiku-born artist, and Ts'ai P'ei (蔡配; Cài Péi), an elementary school teacher from Goseikō Town (梧棲港街?), Taichū Prefecture (Wuqi, Taichung). Lee's ancestors were Hokkiens from Quanzhou, Fujian, in the same village where the Ming Dynasty philosopher Li Zhi was born. Lee played on the baseball and ping-pong teams of Hsinchu Elementary School, and later studied at the Hsinchu Senior High School, where he played tennis and trombone. Due to his achievements in high school, he entered National Taiwan University without taking the entrance examination and earned a B.Sc. in 1959. He earned an M.S. at National Tsing Hua University in 1961 and Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley in 1965 under the supervision of Bruce H. Mahan. He was a member of the Chemistry International Board from 1977 to 1984.
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