Nobel Prize Winner: Hakka Lee Yuan Tseh

["Dixie" <Dixie@singnet.com.sg>]

Lee, Yuan T.,

in full YUAN TSEH LEE (b. Nov. 29, 1936, Hsin-chu, Taiwan),
Taiwanese-American chemist who, with Dudley R. Herschbach and John C.
Polanyi, received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1986 for his role in the
development of chemical-reaction dynamics. 

Lee was educated in Taiwan and at the University of California at Berkeley
(Ph.D., 1965). He did postdoctoral work at Harvard University and Berkeley
and then taught at the University of Chicago from 1968 to 1974. He became a
U.S. citizen in 1974 and moved from Chicago to Berkeley, where he continued
his research. 

As a postdoctoral researcher, Lee experimented with and further developed
Herschbach's invention of the " crossed molecular beam technique"--a
technique (derived from elementary particle physics) in which beams of
molecules are brought together at supersonic speeds under controlled
conditions to allow detailed observation of the events that occur during
chemical reactions. Lee extended Herschbach's technique to enable the study
of larger and more complex molecules. 


- Dixie