Representative Figures of 20th Century Taiwan

The Scientific Profession: Yuan-Tseh Lee: Returning to Taiwan for Work: 2001 Nights

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Yuan-Tseh Lee was born on December 19, 1936, in Hsinchu, Taiwan. He attended Hsinchu Elementary School and Hsinchu High School. In 1955, he was admitted to the Department of Chemical Engineering at National Taiwan University (NTU), but transferred to the Department of Chemistry in his second year. He graduated from NTU in 1959 and received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1965. He taught at Harvard University and the University of Chicago, and became a professor in the Department of Chemistry at UC Berkeley in 1974. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1979 and an academician of the Academia Sinica in 1980.