{"id":194075,"date":"2024-08-05T14:22:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T19:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/nobel-prize-winning-physicist-tsung-dao-lee-dies-at-age-97"},"modified":"2024-08-05T14:22:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T19:22:27","slug":"nobel-prize-winning-physicist-tsung-dao-lee-dies-at-age-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/nobel-prize-winning-physicist-tsung-dao-lee-dies-at-age-97","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Prize-winning physicist Tsung-Dao Lee dies at age 97"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nobel-prize-winning-physicist-tsung-dao-lee-dies-at-age-972.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TAIPEI, Taiwan \u2014 Chinese-American physicist Tsung-Dao Lee, who in 1957 became the second-youngest scientist to receive a Nobel Prize, died Sunday at his home in San Francisco at age 97, according to a Chinese university and a research center.<\/p>\n<p>Lee, whose work advanced the understanding of particle physics, was one of the great masters in the field, according to a joint obituary released Monday by the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the Beijing-based China Center for Advanced Science and Technology.<\/p>\n<p>Lee, a naturalized U.S. citizen since 1962, was also a professor emeritus at Columbia University in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAIPEI, Taiwan \u2014 Chinese-American physicist Tsung-Dao Lee, who in 1957 became the second-youngest scientist to receive a Nobel Prize, died Sunday at his home in San Francisco at age 97, according to a Chinese university and a research center. Lee, whose work advanced the understanding of particle physics, was one of the great masters in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}