Yuan T. Lee

Yuan Tseh Lee
Yuan Tseh Lee
李遠哲
	Official portrait, 2016
Advisor of the National Climate Change Committee
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 7 July 2024 Serving with Eugene Chien
President	Lai Ching-te
Senior Advisor to the President
	In office; 9 November 2016 – 19 May 2020
President	Tsai Ing-wen
	In office; 20 May 2000 – 20 May 2001
President	Chen Shui-bian
7th President of the Academia Sinica
	In office; 18 January 1994 – 18 October 2006
President	Lee Teng-hui; Chen Shui-bian
Preceded by	Wu Ta-You
Succeeded by	Chi-Huey Wong
Personal details
Born	19 November 1936; Shinchiku City, Shinchiku Prefecture, Japanese Taiwan
Citizenship	Empire of Japan (1936–1945); Republic of China (1945–present); United States (1974–1994)
Political party	Independent
Education	National Taiwan University (BS); National Tsing Hua University (MS); University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Awards	Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1986); National Medal of Science (1986); Peter Debye Award (1986) ; Faraday Lectureship Prize (1992); Othmer Gold Medal (2008)
	Scientific career
Fields	Physical chemistry
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley; University of Chicago; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Academia Sinica (Taiwan)
Thesis	Photoionization of alkali-metal vapors (1965)
Doctoral advisor	Bruce H. Mahan
Doctoral students	Laurie Butler

Yuan Tseh Lee (Chinese: 李遠哲; pinyin: Lǐ Yuǎnzhé; Wade–Giles: Li³ Yüan³-che²; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lí Oán-tiat; born 19 November 1936) is a Taiwanese chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986 for his contributions to the development of reaction dynamics.

Lee is a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and honorary director of the Nagoya University Institute for Advanced Study along with Ryoji Noyori. He was awarded the Nobel with John C. Polanyi and Dudley R. Herschbach for "contributions to the dynamics of chemical elementary processes". He was the first Taiwanese person be awarded the Nobel Prize. His research in physical chemistry concerned the use of advanced chemical kinetics techniques to investigate and manipulate the behavior of chemical reactions using crossed molecular beams. From 1994 to 2006, Lee served as the President of the Academia Sinica. In 2011, he was elected head of the International Council for Science.