Tsung-Dao Lee is a Chinese-born American physicist, well known for his work on parity violation, the Lee Model, particle physics, relativistic heavy ion physics, nontopological solitons and soliton stars. In 1957, Lee, at the age of 30, won the Nobel Prize in Physics with C. N. Yang for their work on the violation of parity law in weak interaction, which Chien-Shiung Wu experimentally verified. Lee is the youngest Nobel laureate after World War II, and the third youngest in history after W. L. Bragg and Werner Heisenberg . Lee and Yang were the first Chinese laureates. Since naturalized... as American citizen in 1962, Lee thus is also the youngest American who has ever won a Nobel Prize. Tsung Dao Lee's ancestral hometown is Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. T.D. was born in Shanghai.
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