DigiNepal
David Lee
Kenneth C. Zirkel · CC BY-SA 3.0
Suggest a better photo · Report

David Lee

American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

नेपालीमा पढ्नुहोस् · हिंदी में पढ़ें

  • नेपाली · English · हिंदीRead in your language
  • CitedEvery fact sourced
  • Ad-freeNo ads, no tracking

David Morris Lee is an American physicist who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics with Robert C. Richardson and Douglas Osheroff "for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3." Lee is professor emeritus of physics at Cornell University and distinguished professor of physics at Texas A&M University.

Quick facts

Born
wd
Place of birth
Rye wd
Citizenship
United States wd
Occupation
physicist, university teacher wd
Education
Harvard University, Yale University, University of Connecticut wd

Awards wd

  • Guggenheim Fellowship (1966)
  • Nobel Prize in Physics (1996)
  • Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1981)
  • Wilbur Cross Medal (1998)
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society
  • Honorary doctorate of the University of Florida (1998)
  • honorary doctorate from Joseph Fourier University (1997)
  • Simon Memorial Prize

Questions

When was David Lee born?
David Lee was born on 20 January 1931 in Rye.
Where did David Lee study?
David Lee was educated at Harvard University, Yale University, University of Connecticut.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia (English): David Lee · CC BY-SA 4.0
  2. Wikidata item Q201853 · CC0 1.0
  3. Image: Nobel Laureate David Morris Lee in 2007.jpg by Kenneth C. Zirkel (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Last updated · facts checked 7 November 2026

Cite this page

"David Lee". DigiNepal. Last updated 1 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/david-lee. Retrieved 7 November 2026.

Machine-readable versions: JSON · Markdown

Text from the Wikipedia article David Lee, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Nobel Laureate David Morris Lee in 2007.jpg — Kenneth C. Zirkel, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Is this you, or do you work in this person's office? Claim this profile

← People