David M. Lee papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 14-22-3495

Scope and content

Materials relating to the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics including the Nobel Prize certificate, case for the certificate, the Nobel Prize Annual Lecture for 1996, "The Extraordinary Phases of Liquid 3HE," by David M. Lee, reprint from Les Prix Nobel 1996, two posters describing the research, and video of the Nobel Prize ceremony. Framed clippings about national and international awards in low temperature physics, 1981; and certificate of election to membership in the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2003, with a program about a lecture by Professor Vladimir E. Fortov, 2009.

Scope and content

Also, photographs of Lee as a child and as a graduate student at Yale (with digital copies)

Dates

1935-2009.

Creator

Lee, David M., 1931- (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Physicist, Cornell University professor of physics, Nobel laureate. David M. Lee was born in 1931. He received the A.B. degree from Harvard University, an M.S. from the University of Connecticut and a Ph.D. in physics from Yale University in 1959. He came to Cornell as an instructor in 1959 to work in a newly-established laboratory for low-temperature physics, becoming a full professor in 1969. In 1999, he was named the James G. White Professor of Physics. Lee was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1990 and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1991. He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, both in 1982. In 1996, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Robert C. Richardson and Douglas D. Osheroff for the discovery of superfluidity in helium-3. In 2003, he was elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences.