Yuan T. Lee

Yuan Tseh Lee (<a href="/facts/Traditional_Chinese_characters/bBFLkuz7">Chinese</a>: 李遠哲; <a href="/facts/Pinyin/pUwjfMXg">pinyin</a>: Lǐ Yuǎnzhé; <a href="/facts/Wade%25E2%2580%2593Giles/CD1F1u4t">Wade–Giles</a>: Li³ Yüan³-che²; <a href="/facts/Pe%25CC%258Dh-%25C5%258De-j%25C4%25AB/D9XlKhn6">Pe̍h-ōe-jī</a>: Lí Oán-tiat; born 19 November 1936) is a Taiwanese <a href="/facts/Chemist/N09K7Bdm">chemist</a> who was awarded the <a href="/facts/Nobel_Prize_in_Chemistry/8Nb8Ajjy">Nobel Prize in Chemistry</a> in 1986 for his contributions to the development of <a href="/facts/Reaction_dynamics/mKoeswLJ">reaction dynamics</a>.
Lee is a professor emeritus at the <a href="/facts/University_of_California%2c_Berkeley/MXVEjklr">University of California, Berkeley</a>, and honorary director of the <a href="/facts/Nagoya_University/0MABJXSj">Nagoya University</a> Institute for Advanced Study along with <a href="/facts/Ryoji_Noyori/Hm23tw5X">Ryoji Noyori</a>. He was awarded the Nobel with <a href="/facts/John_C._Polanyi/g1UBX2SE">John C. Polanyi</a> and <a href="/facts/Dudley_R._Herschbach/K0F8y6jw">Dudley R. Herschbach</a> for "contributions to the dynamics of chemical elementary processes". He was the first Taiwanese person be awarded the Nobel Prize. His research in <a href="/facts/Physical_chemistry/WqwnJjRM">physical chemistry</a> concerned the use of advanced <a href="/facts/Chemical_kinetics/D8vyX4aE">chemical kinetics</a> techniques to investigate and manipulate the behavior of chemical reactions using <a href="/facts/Crossed_molecular_beam/PQ9Sx5Ac">crossed molecular beams</a>. From 1994 to 2006, Lee served as the President of the <a href="/facts/Academia_Sinica/qpeMTIRX">Academia Sinica</a>. In 2011, he was elected head of the <a href="/facts/International_Council_for_Science/H5tNtmVL">International Council for Science</a>.

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Yuan T. Lee