Yuan-Tseh Lee 李遠哲 Election Year 1980 Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica
No. 1, Roosevelt Rd., Sec. 4, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan Tel: (02) 2366-8200 / Fax: (02) 2363-0578
Education
B.S., National Taiwan University (1959)
M.S., National Tsing Hua University (1961)
Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley (1965)
Professional Experience
Professor of Chemistry, University of Chicago (1973-1974)
Professor of Chemistry (1974-1991), University Professor (1991-1994), Professor Emeritus (1994), Graduate Professor (1994-1997), UC Berkeley
Principal Investigator, Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1974-1997)
Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica (1994-2015)
President (1994-2006), President Emeritus (2006-), Academia Sinica
President Elected (2008-2011), President (2011-2014), ICSU
Specialties
Chemistry
Awards and Honors
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1975)
Member, U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1979)
Academician, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (1980)
Ernest O. Lawrence Award, U.S. Department of Energy (1981)
Peter Debye Award of Physical Chemistry, American Chemical Society (1986)
National Medal of Science, White House, U.S.A. (1986)
Elected Member, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)(1986)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1986)
Corresponding Member, Gottingen Academy of Sciences, Germany (1988)
Faraday Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry, London, U.K. (1992)
The Honorary Foreign Member, Indian National Science Academy (1997)
The Clark Kerr Award, University of California at Berkeley (1999)
Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Medal, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, India (2004)
Academician, Pontifical Academy of Science (2007)
Othmer Gold Medal, The Chemical Heritage Foundation, U.S.A. (2008)
Foreign Member, Bangladesh Academy of Sciences (2009)
Ettore Majorana-Erice-Science for Peace Prize, Italy (2011)
Kolos Prize, Poland (2011)
Maria Sklodowska-Curie Medal, Poland (2011)
Elise and Walter A. Haas International Award, UC Berkeley, U.S.A. (2012)
French National Order of Merit, Grand Officer (2012)
The Order of Manuel Amador Guerrero, The Republic of Panama (2012)
Grand Cross of the National Order of Scientific Merit, The Federative Republic of Brazil (2013)
Honorary Member, Science Council of Japan, Japan (2015)
Foreign Member, A.M. Prokhorov Academy of Engineering Sciences (2016)
Foreign Member, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (2018)
Doctor Honoris Causa from 42 universities worldwide