Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: On August 4, 2024, Tsung-Dao Lee, a renowned theoretical physicist of Chinese origin, passed away at the age of 97. His most famous discovery dates back to 1956, when – together with Chen-Ning Yang – he postulated that parity symmetry might be broken by the weak interaction. They suggested experimental tests of this revolutionary idea, which were conducted within one year. The results confirmed the conjecture by Lee and Yang, thus changing a core paradigm of physics.
Source: Revista Mexicana de Física E
Author: Wolfgang Bietenholz
Institution: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4411895995