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Personal Life

Lee was raised in Rye, New York. His parents were children of Jewish immigrants from England and Lithuania. He graduated from Harvard University in 1952 and then joined the U.S. Army. He obtained a Masters degree from the University of Connecticut and then entered the Ph.D. program at Yale University in 1955 where he worked under Henry A. Fairbank. After graduating from Yale, he became a professor at Cornell University, where he works today. He is married and has two sons. Rye, New York is the name of two places in Westchester County, New York. ... Jump to: navigation, search State nickname: The Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York City Governor George Pataki (R) Senators Charles Schumer (D) Hillary Rodham Clinton (D) Official languages None (English is de facto) Area 141,205 km² or 54,556 square miles (27th)  - Land... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... Jump to: navigation, search Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK... Jump to: navigation, search Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Army is the branch of the United States armed forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ... University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut, commonly known as UConn, is the State of Connecticuts flagship land-grant university. ... Jump to: navigation, search For other uses, see Yale (disambiguation). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search For other uses of the name Cornell, see Cornell (disambiguation). ...

Work

In 1972, he published his work on Helium-3 superfluidity with Cornell professor Robert C. Richardson and a graduate student, Doug Osheroff. He also worked on the discovery of nuclear spin waves in spin polarized atomic hydrogen gas with Jack H. Freed. His research group currently studies impurity-helium solids. Jump to: navigation, search 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... Superfluidity is a phase of matter characterised by the complete absence of viscosity. ... There are at least two famous people with the name Robert C. Richardson. ...

He received 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 3He work. The trio received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1996 for this work. Jump to: navigation, search 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The American Physical Society was founded in 1899 and is the worlds largest organization of physicists. ... Jump to: navigation, search List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

Lee is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. President Harding and the National Academy of Sciences at the White House, Washington, DC, April 1921 The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine. ... The House of the Academy, Cambridge, Massachusetts. ...

External links

• Faculty page at Cornell
• Nobel autobiography
• discovery of superfluidity in helium-3.