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David Lee

James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences, Emeritus

Liquid and solid helium; spin polarized hydrogen gas; superconductivity; magnetic resonance; ultra-low temperature cryogenics; impurity helium solids


Research

Liquid and solid helium; spin polarized hydrogen gas; superconductivity; magnetic resonance; ultra-low temperature cryogenics; impurity helium solids


Awards and Honors

  • Nobel Prize in Physics (with D.D. Osheroff and R. C. Richardson), 1996
  • Foreign Member, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2003
  • Wilbur Cross Medal, Yale University, 1999
  • Shared Oliver Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society, 1981
  • Shared Sir Francis Simon Memorial Prize, 1976
  • Member, National Academy of Sciences
  • Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Fellow, American Physical Society
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow, 1977
  • John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, 1966-67 and 1974-75

Educational Background

  • James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor of the Physical Sciences, Cornell University, 1999-2007
  • Professor, Physics, Cornell University, 1969-99
  • Visiting appointments at Brookhaven National Laboratory; University of Florida; Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France, Chaire Municipale
  • Assistant Professor, Physics, Cornell University, 1960-63. Associate Professor, Physics, Cornell University, 1963-69
  • Instructor, Physics, Cornell University, 1959-60
  • Ph.D., Physics, Yale University, 1959
  • M.S., University of Connecticut, 1955
  • U.S. Army, 1952-54
  • B.S., Harvard University, 1952