P. A. Lee

Biography

Abstract

Patrick Lee is the William and Emma Rogers Professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Other institutional affiliations include Bell Laboratories and University of Washington. His research interests include strongly correlated electronic systems and high temperature superconductivity.

Important Dates

September 8, 1946Birth, Hong Kong (China).

1966Obtained BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge (Mass.).

1970Obtained PhD in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge (Mass.).

1970 – 1972J. W. Gibbs Instructor of Physics, Yale University.

1972 – 1982Member, Techical Staff, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill (N.J.).

1973 – 1974Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle.

1981 – 1987Member, Board of Trustees, Aspen Center for Physics.

1982 – presentProfessor of Physics (1982-1991) and William and Emma Rogers Professor of Physics (1991-present), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge (Mass.).

1991Member, National Academy of Sciences.

1991Awarded Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize, American Physical Society.

1992 – 1995 Member, Advisory Board, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara.

2005Awarded Dirac Medal, International Centre for Theoretical Physics.

Occupation

Theoretical physicist.

Places

Birth

Hong Kong (China)

Undergraduate Education

Cambridge (Mass.)

Graduate Education

Cambridge (Mass.)

Employment

Murray Hill (N.J.)

Cambridge (Mass.)

Subjects

Antiferromagnetism.

Electronic systems.

High temperature superconductivity.

Superconductors.

Theoretical physics.

Relationships

People

Colleagues

Adair, Robert K., 1924-

Both employed at Yale University.

Aeppli, Gabriel

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Ahlers, G. (Günter)

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Al'tshuler, B. L.

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Anderson, P. W. (Philip W.), 1923-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Appelbaum, J. A. (Joel A.)

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Ashkin, Arthur, 1922-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Aspnes, D. E.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Bardeen, James Maxwell, 1939-

Both employed at Yale University.

Benedek, George Bernard, 1928-

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Birgeneau, Robert J. (Robert Joseph), 1942-

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Bishop, David John, 1951-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Boyle, Willard S., 1924-2011

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Brinkman, William F. (William Frank), 1938-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Bromley, D. Allan (David Allan), 1926-2005

Both employed at Yale University.

Buchsbaum, Solomon J.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Bucksbaum, Philip H.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Cava, Robert J.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Chabal, Yves Jean, 1952-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Chemla, D. S.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Chynoweth, A. G.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Clogston, Albert McCavour

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Coppi, B.

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Cutler, Cassius Chapin

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Davidson, Ronald C.

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Deutsch, Martin, 1917-2002

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

DiSalvo, Francis

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Dolan, Gerald

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Dresselhaus, M. S.

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Dynes, Robert C.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Enge, Harald A.

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Feshbach, Herman

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Fisk, James B. (James Brown), 1910-1981

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Fleury, Paul A.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Freedman, Daniel Z.

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Friedman, Jerome I. (Jerome Isaac), 1930-

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Fulton, Theodore Alan

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Goldstone, Jeffrey

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Gossard, A. C.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Guth, Alan H.

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Hagstrum, Homer D.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Halperin, Bertrand I.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Hamann, Donald, 1939-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Herring, William Conyers, 1914-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Hohenberg, Pierre C.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Holt, R. J. (Roy J.)

Both employed at Yale University.

Hopfield, John J.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Hughes, Vernon W.

Both employed at Yale University.

Jackiw, Roman W.

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Jackson, Shirley Ann, 1946-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Javan, Ali, 1926-

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Joannopoulos, J. D. (John D.), 1947-

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Johnson, Peter D., 1952-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Kaspi, Victoria Michelle, 1967-

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Kastner, Marc A.

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Kendall, Henry W. (Henry Way), 1926-1999

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Ketterle, Wolfgang

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Klein, Martin J.

Both employed at Yale University.

Kleppner, Daniel

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Kompfner, Rudolf, 1909-1977

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Lamb, Willis E. (Willis Eugene), 1913-2008

Both employed at Yale University.

Lander, James J., 1914-1996

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Laughlin, Robert B.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Lax, Benjamin

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Livingston, M. Stanley (Milton Stanley)

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Low, Francis E. (Francis Eugene), 1921-2007

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Matthias, Bernd T., 1918-1980

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Morrison, Philip

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Morse, Philip M. (Philip McCord), 1903-1985

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Murray, Cherry Ann

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Osheroff, Douglas D.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Page, Lyman A.

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Patel, C. Kumar N.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Penzias, Arno A.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Pfann, William G.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Phillips, J. C.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Phillips, Julia M.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Pinczuk, Aron

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Porkolab, Miklos

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Raghavachari, Krishnan

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Randall, Lisa

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Rasmussen, Norman C.

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Read, Nicholas

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Rice, Thomas Maurice, 1939-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Rossi, Bruno, 1905-1993

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Rowell, John Martin, 1935-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Sandweiss, Jack H.

Both employed at Yale University.

Shank, C. V. (Charles V.)

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Shull, Clifford Glenwood

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Smith, George E., 1930-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Smith, Neville, 1942-2006

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Stillinger, F. H.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Störmer, Horst

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Tersoff, J.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Thomas, D. G. (David Gilbert), 1928-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Ting, S. C. C. (Samuel Chao-chung), 1936-

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Tsui, D. C. (Daniel Chee), 1939-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Weeks, John David

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Weiss, Rainer

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Weisskopf, Victor Frederick, 1908-2002

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Wiesner, Jerome B. (Jerome Bert), 1915-1994

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Wilczek, Frank

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Wilson, Robert Woodrow, 1936-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Zacharias, Jerrold Reinach, 1905-1986

Both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Institutions

Major Positions

Bell Telephone Laboratories

Member, Techical Staff.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics

Obtained BS in 1966 and PhD in 1970. Professor of Physics and William and Emma Rogers Professor of Physics.

University of Washington. Department of Physics

Assistant Professor of Physics.

Yale University. Physics Department

J. W. Gibbs Instructor of Physics.

Professional Activities & Affiliations

Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics

Received 2005 Dirac Medal.

American Physical Society

Received 1991 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize.

Aspen Center for Physics

Member, Board of Trustees.

National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)

Member.

University of California, Santa Barbara. Institute for Theoretical Physics

Member, Advisory Board.

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