Quote of the day
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Tsung-Dao Lee
Born: November 24, 1926
Died: August 4, 2024 (aged 97)
Bio: Tsung-Dao Lee was a Chinese-American physicist, known for his work on parity violation, the Lee Model, particle physics, relativistic heavy ion physics, nontopological solitons and soliton stars.
Known for:
- Elementary Particles and Weak Interactions (1957)
- Selected Papers: Random Lattices to Gravity (2011)







