David Lee (physicist)

David Morris Lee ( born January 20, 1931 in Rye, New York) is an American physicist and Nobel laureate.

Lee grew up in Rye, New York. His parents were Jewish immigrants from England and Lithuania. Lee graduated from Harvard University and then went in 1952 to the U.S. Army. He then received his Master degree at the University of Connecticut and began in 1955 with the doctoral program at Yale University, where he was supervised by Henry A. Fairbank. After his graduation, he became a professor at Cornell University, where he taught until today.

1996 Lee was with Douglas D. Osheroff and Robert C. Richardson of the Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for their discovery of superfluidity in helium -3 the at very low temperatures ( close to absolute zero ), which they published in 1972. Lee has also discovered along with Jack H. Freed nuclear spin waves in polarized atomic hydrogen gas. Currently, his research group is working with helium -doped solids.

1976 Lee was awarded the Sir Francis Simon Memorial Prize of the British Institute of Physics and Oliver E. Buckley 1981 Condensed Matter Prize of the American Physical Society together with Doug Osheroff and Robert Richardson for the work that the three of them the 1996 Nobel Prize earned. Lee is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

2009 Lee moved to his lab to Texas A & M University.

His wife Dana met Lee at Cornell University to know that in any other subject removed her PhD at the same university in 1959. The couple has two sons.