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    David Lee (physicist)

    David Morris Lee (born January 20, 1931) is an American physicist who shared
    the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics with Robert C. Richardson and Douglas David Morris Lee
    Osheroff "for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3."[1] Lee is professor
    emeritus of physics at Cornell University and distinguished professor of physics
    at Texas A&M University.[2] [3]

    Personal life
    Lee was born and raised in Rye, New York.[4] His parents, Annette (Franks), a
    teacher, and Marvin Lee, an electrical engineer, were children of Jewish
    immigrants from England and Lithuania. He graduated from Harvard University
    in 1952 and then joined the U.S. Army for 22 months. After being discharged
    from the army, he obtained a master's degree from the University of Connecticut.
    In 1955 Lee entered the Ph.D. program at Yale University where he worked
    under Henry A. Fairbank in the low-temperature physics group, doing David Morris Lee in 2007
    experimental research on liquid 3He. Born January 20, 1931
    Rye, New York
    After graduating from Yale in 1959, Lee took a job at Cornell University, where
    he was responsible for setting up the new Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Education Harvard University (BA)
    Physics. Shortly after arriving at Cornell he met his future wife, Dana, then a University of Connecticut
    (MA)
    PhD student in another department; the couple went on to have two sons.
    Yale University (PhD)
    Lee moved his laboratory from Cornell to Texas A&M University on November Spouse Dana (2 children)
    16, 2009.[5][6][7] Awards Nobel Prize in Physics (1996)
    Oliver Buckley Prize (1981)
    Simon Memorial Prize (1976)
    Work Buckley Prize (1970)
    Scientific career
    The work that led to Lee's Nobel Prize was performed in the early 1970s. Lee,
    together with Robert C. Richardson and graduate student, Doug Osheroff used a Fields Physics
    Pomeranchuk cell to investigate the behaviour of 3He at temperatures within a Institutions Cornell University
    few thousandths of a degree of absolute zero. They discovered unexpected effects Texas A&M University (2009-
    in their measurements, which they eventually explained as phase transitions to a present)
    superfluid phase of 3He.[8][9] Lee, Richardson and Osheroff were jointly awarded Doctoral Henry A. Fairbank
    the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1996 for this discovery. advisor

    Lee's research also covered a number of other topics in low-temperature physics,


    particularly relating to liquid, solid and superfluid helium (4He, 3He and mixtures of the two). Particular discoveries include the
    antiferromagnetic ordering in solid helium-3, nuclear spin waves in spin polarized atomic hydrogen gas with Jack H. Freed, and the
    tri-critical point on the phase separation curve of liquid 4He-3He, in collaboration with his Cornell colleague John Reppy. His
    former research group at Cornell currently studies impurity-helium solids.

    As well as the Nobel Prize, other prizes won by Lee include the 1976 Sir Francis Simon Memorial Prize of the British Institute of
    Physics and the 1981 Oliver Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society along with Doug Osheroff and Robert Richardson for
    their superfluid 3He work. In 1997, Lee received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.[10]

    Lee is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

    Lee is currently teaching physics at Texas A&M University and continuing his (formerly Cornell-based) research program there as
    well.

    Lee is one of the 20 American recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics to sign a letter addressed to President George W. Bush in
    May of 2008, urging him to "reverse the damage done to basic science research in the Fiscal Year 2008 Omnibus Appropriations
    Bill" by requesting additional emergency funding for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the National Science
    Foundation, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.[11]

    See also
    List of Jewish Nobel laureates
    Timeline of low-temperature technology

    References
    1. "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1996" (http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1996/index.html). Nobel
    Foundation. Retrieved 2009-10-04.
    2. "David Lee | Department of Physics Cornell Arts & Sciences" (https://physics.cornell.edu/david-lee).
    3. "David Lee - Faculty Member | TAMU Physics & Astronomy" (https://physics.tamu.edu/directory/david-lee/). 30
    September 2019.
    4. David Lee (https://www.nobelprize.org/laureate/149) on Nobelprize.org including the Nobel Lecture, December 7,
    1996 The Extraordinary Phases of Liquid 3He
    5. http://media.www.thebatt.com/media/storage/paper657/news/2009/10/01/News/Nobel.Prize.Winner.Joins.Am.Faculty-
    3788924.shtml
    6. "A&M lures Nobel Prize winner: Researcher of cold" (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hotstories/6643911.html).
    2009-09-29.
    7. "Nobel Prize Winner to Join Texas A&M Physics Faculty | Texas A&M University, College of Science" (https://web.ar
    chive.org/web/20100307181030/http://www.science.tamu.edu/articles/684). Archived from the original (http://www.sc
    ience.tamu.edu/articles/684/) on 2010-03-07. Retrieved 2009-10-12.
    8. Osheroff, DD; RC Richardson; DM Lee (1972-04-03). "Evidence for a New Phase of Solid He3" (https://doi.org/10.1
    103%2FPhysRevLett.28.885). Physical Review Letters. 28 (14). American Physical Society: 885–888.
    Bibcode:1972PhRvL..28..885O (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1972PhRvL..28..885O).
    doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.28.885 (https://doi.org/10.1103%2FPhysRevLett.28.885).
    9. Osheroff, DD; WJ Gully; RC Richardson; DM Lee (1972-10-02). "New Magnetic Phenomena in Liquid He3 below
    3mK". Physical Review Letters. 29 (14). American Physical Society: 920–923. Bibcode:1972PhRvL..29..920O (http
    s://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1972PhRvL..29..920O). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.29.920 (https://doi.org/10.1103%2F
    PhysRevLett.29.920).
    10. "Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement" (https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plat
    e-awards/#science-exploration). www.achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement.
    11. "A Letter from America's Physics Nobel Laureates" (https://fire.pppl.gov/nobel_bush_fy08_050808.pdf) (PDF).

    External links
    Faculty page at Cornell (http://www.lassp.cornell.edu/lassp_data/dmlee.html)
    David Lee (https://www.nobelprize.org/laureate/149) on Nobelprize.org including the Nobel Lecture, December 7,
    1996 The Extraordinary Phases of Liquid 3He

    Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Lee_(physicist)&oldid=1245479149"

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