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BANC MSS 90/134 c
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Collection Title: Yuan T. Lee papers
Date (inclusive): 1964-1994
Date (bulk): 1980-1993
Collection Number: BANC MSS 90/134 c
Creator:
Lee, Yuan Tseh
Extent:
9 cartons (11.25 linear feet)
Repository: The Bancroft Library.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Abstract: The Yuan T. Lee papers including correspondence, research proposals, organizational records, project files and university
records.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English, Chinese
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Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], Yuan T. Lee papers, BANC MSS 90/134 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
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Lee, Yuan Tseh
Chemists -- United States
Berkeley (Calif.)
Faculty papers
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A professor in the Chemistry Department at U.C. Berkeley starting in 1974, Yuan T. Lee is best known for his work on the use
of chemical kinetic techniques to investigate and manipulate the behavior of chemical reactions involving relative large molecules
by using crossed molecular beams. Born in Hsinchu, Taiwan in 1936, he graduated from the National Taiwan University in 1959
with a B.Sc., earned an M.S. at the National Tsing Hua University in 1961 and completed his Ph.D. in chemistry at U.C. Berkeley
in 1965. After post-doctoral studies at Harvard University under the tutelage of Dudley Herschbach, he was appointed Assistant
Professor in the Department of Chemistry and the James Franck Institute of the University of Chicago in 1968. His subsequent
appointment as Professor of Chemistry at U.C. Berkeley seven years later also included the role of principal investigator
at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. From 1994-2006, Lee was also President of Academia Sinica in Taiwan. Chief among
the many accolades he received over the years was the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986. In addition, he was a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1975), has been awarded the National Medal of Science (1986) and was a John Simon Guggenheim
Fellow. Currently Dr. Lee is Professor Emeritus of the Chemistry Department at U.C. Berkeley and is serving as President of
the International Council for Science.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Yuan T. Lee papers contain correspondence, organizational files, research proposals and reports that chronicle both the
eminent chemist’s career at U.C. Berkeley, and his numerous professional activities and contributions outside of the university.
Active on many fronts in his native Taiwan, Lee also undertook collaborative research project with colleagues at institutions
throughout the world (including France, Sweden and Japan) and served on numerous committees. His papers are notable for their
focus on the work of Chinese and Chinese American specific science associations (such as the Chinese American Chemical Society,
and the Chinese Association for Science and Technology), and his groundbreaking research on chemical kinetics and crossed
molecular beams. Indeed, the many research proposals to such entities as the Department of Defense, Department of Energy,
the Office of Naval Research and the Atomic Energy Commission, speak to the prominence of his research and national interest
in his innovations in the field.