Yuan Tseh Lee:
Yuan Tseh Lee is a Taiwanese-American chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
November 19, 1936 in Hsin-chu, Taiwan
Claim to Fame:
Lee is a Taiwanese-American chemist who shares the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with John Polanyi and Dudley Herschbach for their contributions to the understanding of elementary chemical processes. Lee worked with Herschbach's crossed molecular beam technique where beams of molecules are accelerated and forced to collide to study the events that occur during reactions in the collisions. He added the ability to conduct mass spectrometry to identify the products of oxygen and fluorine beams crossed with organic compounds.
