President, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
After receiving PhD degree in 1965 from the University of California at Berkerly, Yuan Tseh Lee began to conduct reactive scattering experiments in ion-molecule reactions as a post-doctoral fellow at Berkerly. Two years later. Lee joined Harvard as a research fellow to conduct molecular beam experimentation beyond the alkali age.
As an assistant professor at the University of Chicago, Lee made his laboratory the North American capital of molecular beam study. Later at Berkerly, he significantly expanded his research to include studies of reaction dynamic, investigations of primary photochemical processes, and the spectroscopy of ionic and molecular clusters.
In an old fashioned way Prof.Lee presented his talk using over-head projector at the 10th Asian Chemical Congress in Hanoi, Oct.21-24, 2003 Vietnam
Since January 15, 1994, Lee has been the President of the Academia Sinica of Republic of China.
Lee has received numerous awards and honours, including the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the US National Medal of Science and Faraday Medal from the Royal Chemical Society of Great Britain.
He has also been awarded the Ernest O.Lawrence Award of the US Department of Energy (1981), the Harrison Howe Award (1983), and the Peter Debye Award of Physical Chemistry from the American Chemical Society (1986), national Medal of Science (1986). He was received Doctor Honoris Causa from 19 different universities throughout the world. Lee was one of the four Nobelists who established the Wu Chien-Shiung Foundation. He is also Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1975), Fellow of Am. Phys. Soc (1976); Guggenheim Fellow (1977), Member national Academy of Sciences (1979).