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David Morris Lee
(born January 20, 1931) 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
.
Lee was born and raised in
Rye
,
New York
.
[4]
His parents, Annette (Franks), a teacher, and Marvin Lee, an electrical engineer, were children of
Jewish
immigrants from
England
and
Lithuania
. He graduated from
Harvard University
in 1952 and then joined the
U.S. Army
for 22 months. After being discharged from the army, he obtained a master's degree from the
University of Connecticut
. In 1955 Lee entered the Ph.D. program at
Yale University
where he worked under
Henry A. Fairbank
in the low-temperature physics group, doing experimental research on liquid
3
He. After graduating from Yale in 1959, Lee took a job at
Cornell University
, where he was responsible for setting up the new
Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics
. Shortly after arriving at Cornell he met his future wife, Dana, then a PhD student in another department; the couple went on to have two sons. Lee moved his laboratory from Cornell to
Texas A&M University
on November 16, 2009.
In the summer of 2016, Lee lost his wife, Dana, due to un-diagnosed health issues. The work that led to Lee's Nobel Prize was performed in the early 1970s. Lee, together with
Robert C. Richardson
and graduate student,
Doug Osheroff
used a
Pomeranchuk cell
to investigate the behaviour of
3
He
at temperatures within a few thousandths of a degree of absolute zero. They discovered unexpected effects in their measurements, which they eventually explained as phase transitions to a superfluid phase of
3
He. Lee, Richardson and Osheroff were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1996 for this discovery Lee's research also covered a number of other topics in low-temperature physics, particularly relating to liquid, solid and superfluid helium (
4
He,
3
He and mixtures of the two). Particular discoveries include the antiferromagnetic ordering in solid helium-3,
nuclear spin
waves in spin polarized atomic hydrogen gas with
Jack H. Freed
, and the tri-critical point on the phase separation curve of liquid
4
He-
3
He, in collaboration with his Cornell colleague
John Reppy
. His former research group at Cornell currently studies impurity-helium solids. As well as the Nobel Prize, other prizes won by Lee include the 1976 Sir
Francis Simon
Memorial Prize of the British
Institute of Physics
and the 1981
Oliver Buckley Prize
of the
American Physical Society
along with Doug Osheroff and Robert Richardson for their superfluid
3
He work. In 1997, Lee received the Golden Plate Award of the
American Academy of Achievement
.
Lee is a member of the
National Academy of Sciences
and the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
. Lee is currently teaching physics at
Texas A&M University
and continuing his (formerly Cornell-based) research program there as well. Lee is one of the 20 American recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics to sign a letter addressed to President
George W. Bush
in May of 2008, urging him to "reverse the damage done to basic science research in the Fiscal Year 2008 Omnibus Appropriations Bill" by requesting additional emergency funding for the
Department of Energy
’s
Office of Science
, the
National Science Foundation
, and the
National Institute of Standards and Technology