Dr. Lee, born on November 29, 1936, in Hsinchu, Taiwan, China, came to the United States in 1962. He received BS, National Taiwan University, in 1959, MS, National Tsinghua University in 1961 and Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley in 1965. His doctoral thesis deals with photoionization of alkali-metal vapors. He taught at the University of Chicago (1968-74) and University of California, Berkeley (1974-94) and Principal investigator, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California (1974-97). In 1994, he assumed the presidency, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, China.
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Dr. Lee used a molecular-beam apparatus by which to detail the precise motion of atoms during chemical reactions. For this molecular-beam technology, he was awarded the Nobel prize in chemistry in 1986. The award was shared with American chemist Dudley Robert Herschbach and German-born Canadian chemist John Charles Polanyi.
Dr. Lee received a number of awards, including fellow, Alfred P. Sloan (1969-71), John Simon Guggenheim (1976-77), scholar, Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation (1971-74), Ernest O. Lawrence award, Department of Energy (1981), Harrison Howe award (1983), Peter Debye award for physical chemistry (1986), and National Medal of Science (1986, 1990),