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Yuan Tseh Lee (; born 19 November 1936) is a Taiwanese
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and a Professor Emeritus at the
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. He was the first Taiwanese Nobel Prize laureate who, along with the Hungarian-Canadian
John C. Polanyi John Charles Polanyi ( hu, Polányi János Károly; born 23 January 1929) is a German-born Canadian chemist. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research in chemical kinetics. Polanyi was born into the prominent Hungari ...
and American
Dudley R. Herschbach Dudley Robert Herschbach (born June 18, 1932) is an American chemist at Harvard University. He won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Yuan T. Lee and John C. Polanyi "for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elemen ...
, won the
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in 1986 "for their contributions to the dynamics of chemical elementary processes". Lee's particular
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work was related to the use of advanced
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techniques to investigate and manipulate the behavior of chemical reactions using
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s. From 15 January 1994 to 19 October 2006, Lee served as the President of the
Academia Sinica Academia Sinica (AS, la, 1=Academia Sinica, 3=Chinese Academy; ), headquartered in Nangang, Taipei, is the national academy of Taiwan. Founded in Nanking, the academy supports research activities in a wide variety of disciplines, ranging from ...
of
Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
. In 2011, he was elected head of the
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.


Early life

Lee was born to a
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family in Shinchiku City (modern-day Hsinchu city) in northern Taiwan, which was then under Japanese rule, to
Lee Tze-fan Lee Tze-fan (; 5 June 1907 Shinchiku-cho (modern-day Hsinchu), Japanese Taiwan - 10 July 1989) was a Taiwanese painter and art teacher. He studied at Taihoku Normal School when he was 14 years old. His painting career began in 1924 when he was int ...
, an artist, and Ts'ai P'ei (), an elementary school teacher from ,
Taichū Prefecture was one of the administrative divisions of Japanese Taiwan. The prefecture consisted of modern-day Taichung City, Changhua County and Nantou County. It is also the origin of the name of modern-day Taichung. The Taichū Prefecture was the scene ...
( Wuqi,
Taichung Taichung (, Wade–Giles: ''Tʻai²-chung¹'', pinyin: ''Táizhōng''), officially Taichung City, is a special municipality located in central Taiwan. Taichung has approximately 2.8 million residents and is the second most populous city of Taiw ...
). Lee is a Hokkien with ancestry from
Nan'an City Nan'an () is a county-level city of southern Fujian province, People's Republic of China. It is under the administration of Quanzhou City and as of 2010, had a total population of 1,500,000. More than 4,000,000 overseas Chinese trace their ancest ...
, China. Lee played on the
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and ping-pong teams of Hsinchu Elementary School, and later studied at the
Hsinchu Senior High School National Hsinchu Senior High School () is a high school in East District, Hsinchu City, Taiwan. Student enrollment averages around 2200. Although traditionally an all-boy institution, National Hsinchu Senior High School started admitting female ...
, where he played
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,
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, and the
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. He was exempted from the
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and directly admitted to National Taiwan University. He earned a BSc in 1959. He earned his MS from National Tsing Hua University in 1961 and his PhD from the
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in 1965 under the supervision of
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. He was a member of the Chemistry International Board from 1977 to 1984.


Career


Chemistry

In February 1967, he started working with
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at
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on reactions between
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atoms and diatomic
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molecules and the construction of a universal crossed molecular beams apparatus. After the postdoctoral year with Herschbach he joined the
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faculty in 1968. In 1974, he returned to Berkeley as professor of chemistry and principal investigator at the
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, becoming a U.S. citizen the same year. Lee is a University Professor Emeritus of the
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system.


Nobel prize

One of the major goals of
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is the study of material transformations where
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plays an important role. Scientists during the 19th century stated macroscopic chemical processes consist of many elementary chemical reactions that are themselves simply a series of encounters between
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ic or molecular species. In order to understand the time dependence of
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s, chemical kineticists have traditionally focused on sorting out all of the elementary chemical reactions involved in a macroscopic chemical process and determining their respective rates.
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chemist Svante Arrhenius studied this phenomenon during the late 1880s, and stated the relations between reactive molecular encounters and rates of reactions (formulated in terms of activation energies). Other scientists at the time also stated a chemical reaction is fundamentally a mechanical event, involving the rearrangement of atoms and molecules during a collision. Although these initial theoretical studies were only qualitative, they heralded a new era in the field of chemical kinetics; allowing the prediction of the dynamical course of a chemical reaction. In the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, with the development of many sophisticated experimental techniques, it became possible to study the dynamics of elementary chemical reactions in the laboratory. Such as the analysis of the threshold operating conditions of a chemical
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or the spectra obtained using various linear or non-linear laser spectroscopic techniques. Professor's Lee's research focused on the possibility to control the energies of the reagents, and to understand the dependence of chemical reactivity on molecular orientation, among other studies related to the nature of reaction intermediates,
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dynamics, and identifying complex
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s. To do so, Professor Lee used a breakthrough
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at the time, called the ''"crossed molecular beams technique"'', where the information derived from the measurements of angular and velocity distributions allowed him and his team to understand the dynamics of elementary chemical reactions.


Recent works

During his tenure, Lee has worked to create new research institutes, advance scientific research within Taiwan, and to recruit and cultivate top scholars for the Academic Sinica. In 2010, Lee said that global warming would be much more serious than scientists previously thought, and that Taiwanese people needed to cut their per-capita carbon emissions from the current 12 tons per year to just three. This would take more than a few slogans, turning off the lights for one hour, or cutting meat consumption, noting: "We will have to learn to live the simple lives of our ancestors." Without such efforts, he said, "Taiwanese will be unable to survive long into the future". He has been involved with the Malta Conferences, an initiative designed to bring together Middle Eastern scientists. As part of the initiative, he offered six fellowships to work on the synchrotron in Taiwan. He is also a member of International Advisory Council in Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman.


Personal life

Lee's father was a painter in Taiwan. His mother was an elementary school teacher, and his elder brother,
Yuan-Chuan Lee Yuan-Chuan Lee (; born 30 March 1932) is a Taiwanese biochemist who is currently a professor at Johns Hopkins University in the United States. A Hsinchu City native born on 30 March 1932, Yuan-Chuan Lee was the eldest son of painter Lee Tze-fan ...
, has been a professor in at
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for 40 years, awarded the honor Special Chair Lectureship in Academia Sinica in Taiwan. Besides, his younger brother,
Yuan-Pern Lee Yuan-Pern Lee (; born 25 January 1952) is a Taiwanese chemist. Lee was born on 25 January 1952 in Hsinchu, Taiwan, the youngest of painter Lee Tze-fan's three sons. Lee studied chemistry at National Taiwan University and pursued a doctorate in th ...
, also awarded this honor. Lee's sister, Chi-Mei Lee has served as a professor in
National Chung Hsing University National Chung Hsing University (NCHU; ) is a research-led comprehensive university in South District, Taichung, Republic of China. Currently, NCHU is among the four universities of the Taiwan Comprehensive University System, a research-led un ...
. In 2003, he was one of 22 Nobel Laureates who signed the Humanist Manifesto.


Political role

During the 2000 Presidential Election, Lee has been a supporter of the Pan-green coalition which advocates
Taiwan independence Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast ...
. In the last week of the election he announced his support for the candidacy of Chen Shui-bian who subsequently won over James Soong. Chen intended to nominate Lee to become
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. Lee has been the President of the Academia Sinica since 1994 and renounced his U.S. citizenship to take the post. As president of Academia Sinica he presided over the creation of the Taiwanese history textbook ''
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''. At the request of Chen, Lee was the
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's
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in the 2002
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leaders' summit in
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. ( Presidents of the Republic of China have been barred from joining the APEC summits because of objections from the People's Republic of China.) Lee represented Chen again in the 2003 and 2004 APEC summits in
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and
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, respectively. In January 2004, he and industrial tycoon
Wang Yung-ching Wang Yung-ching (; 18 January 1917 – 15 October 2008), also called YC Wang, was an entrepreneur who founded a large business empire in Taiwan. In 2008, ''Forbes'' ranked him as the 178th richest person in the world with an estimated net wor ...
and theatre director
Lin Hwai-min Lin Hwai-min (; born 19 February 1947) is a Taiwanese dancer, writer, choreographer, and founder of Cloud Gate Dance Theater of Taiwan. Biography Family Lin was born in Xingang, Chiayi. He came from an intellectual family. His great-grandfather ...
issued a joint statement to both Chen Shui-bian and Lien Chan. He backed Chen again in the
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when he issued a statement of support for the DPP on 17 March, three days before polls opened. Lee was then elected President of the
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in 2008, to start his term in 2011. During the
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s, Lee expressed his support for DPP candidate Tsai Ing-wen. In early 2016, he appeared and addressed a rally by New Power Party-a party formed by student activists involved in the
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.


Climate change

Yuan Lee has signed the 2015
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expressing concern about
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.


Wu Chien-Shiung Foundation

Lee was one of the four Nobelists who established the
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Foundation.


Recognition

In addition to the Nobel Prize, his awards and distinctions include Sloan Fellow (1969); Fellow of
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(1975); Fellow Am. Phys. Soc. (1976);
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(1977); Member
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(1979); Member International Academy of Science, Munich, Member
Academia Sinica Academia Sinica (AS, la, 1=Academia Sinica, 3=Chinese Academy; ), headquartered in Nangang, Taipei, is the national academy of Taiwan. Founded in Nanking, the academy supports research activities in a wide variety of disciplines, ranging from ...
(1980); E.O. Lawrence Award (1981); Miller Professor, Berkeley (1981); Fairchild Distinguished Scholar (1983); Harrison Howe Award (1983); Peter Debye Award (1986); National Medal of Science (1986); Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement (1987) and Faraday Lectureship Prize (1992). Yuan Tseh Lee was awarded the Othmer Gold Medal in 2008 in recognition of his outstanding contributions to progress in chemistry and science. His post-doctoral supervisor and fellow Nobel Laureate
Dudley Herschbach Dudley Robert Herschbach (born June 18, 1932) is an American chemist at Harvard University. He won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Yuan T. Lee and John C. Polanyi "for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elemen ...
congratulated Lee. In 2019 Yuan T. Lee was also awarded with the Fray International Sustainability Award by FLOGEN Star Outreach at SIPS 2019


References


Publications

* Lee, Y. T. "Crossed Molecular Beam Studies and Dynamics of Decomposition of Chemically Activated Radicals",
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,
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(through predecessor agency the Atomic Energy Commission), (September 1973). * Lee, Y. T. & S. J. Sibener. "Internal Energy Dependence of Molecular Condensation Coefficients Determined from Molecular Beam Surface Scattering Experiments", Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory,
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,
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, (May 1978). * Lee, Y. T., Sibener, S. J. & R. J. Buss. "Development of a Supersonic Atomic Oxygen Nozzle Beam Source for Crossed Beam Scattering Experiments", Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory,
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,
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, (May 1978). * Lee, Y. T., Baseman, R. J., Guozhong, H. & R. J. Buss. "Reaction Mechanism of Oxygen Atoms with Unsaturated Hydrocarbons by the Crossed-Molecular-Beams Method", Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory,
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,
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-Office of Basic Energy Science, (April 1982). * Lee, Y. T. "Molecular-beam Studies of Primary Photochemical Processes", Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory,
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,
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, (December 1982). * Lee, Y. T., Continetti, R. E. & B. A. Balko. "Molecular Beam Studies of Hot Atom Chemical Reactions: Reactive Scattering of Energetic Deuterium Atoms", Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory,
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, (February 1989). * Lee, Y.T., "Energy, Environment, and the Responsibility of Scientists", (2007).


External links

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