3 Quotes & Sayings By Tsungdao Lee

Tsung-Dao Lee was born in China and received his Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University. He is a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is the Robert M. Bass Professor of Physics Read more

He is also director of the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997, jointly with H. David Politzer, for their pioneering contributions to laser physics, especially for their development of optical soliton waves.

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The progress of science has always been the result of a close interplay between our concepts of the universe and our observations on nature. The former can only evolve out of the latter and yet the latter is also conditioned greatly by the former. Thus in our exploration of nature, the interplay between our concepts and our observations may sometimes lead to totally unexpected aspects among already familiar phenomena. TsungDao Lee
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Since the beginning of physics, symmetry considerations have provided us with an extremely powerful and useful tool in our effort to understand nature. Gradually they have become the backbone of our theoretical formulation of physical laws. TsungDao Lee