Yuan T. Lee
Yuan Tseh Lee 李遠哲 Lee in lab, taken October 21, 1986 Born (1936-11-19) November 19, 1936 (age 78) Hsinchu City, Taiwan Residence Taiwan Nationality Taiwanese 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 Tseh Lee (traditional Chinese: 李遠哲; simplified Chinese: 李远哲; pinyin: Lǐ Yuǎnzhé; Wade–Giles: Li³ Yüan³-che²; Pe h-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 for relative large molecules using crossed molecular beams. From January 15, 1994 to October 19, 2006, Lee served as the President of the Academia Sinica of the Taiwan (ROC). In 2011, he was elected head of the International Council for Science.